Maud (given name)

Maud or Maude (approximately pronounced /mɔːd/ in English), is an Old German name meaning "powerful battler". It is a variant of the given name Matilda but is uncommon as a surname. The Welsh variant of this name is Mawd.^[1]

The name's popularity in 19th-century England is associated with Alfred Tennyson's poem Maud.^[2]^[3]

People with the name include

Royalty and nobility

Maud, Countess of Huntingdon (c. 1074–1130), Queen of Alba as the wife of King David I of Scotland
Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (1074–1130), daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria and heir to his earldom of Huntingdon
Empress Matilda, (1102–1169), also known as "Mahaut", "Maud" or "Maude", daughter of King Henry I of England and mother to King Henry II of England
Maud Angelica Behn (born 2003), member of the Norwegian royal family
Maud Carnegie, Countess of Southesk (1893–1945), née Lady Maud Duff, titled Princess Maud from 1905-1923, a member of the British Royal Family
Maud de Badlesmere (1310–1366), English noblewoman and Countess of Oxford
Maud de Lacy (1230–1304), Baroness Geneville
Maud de Lacy (1223–1289), Countess of Gloucester
Maud de Prendergast (c. 1242 – 1273), Norman-Irish noblewoman and Lady of Offaly
Maud Francis (c. 1370 – 1424), English noblewoman and Countess of Salisbury
Maud Green, Lady Parr (c. 1490/92 – 1531), English noblewoman and the mother of Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII
Maud le Vavasour (1176–1225), Irish noblewoman and Baroness Butler
Maud of Apulia (c. 1060 – 1112), Countess of Barcelona
Matilda of Flanders, (c. 1031 – 1083), also known as "Maud", Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror
Maud of Gloucester (died 1189), Countess of Chester
Maud of Lancaster (c. 1310 – 1377), Countess of Ulster
Maud of Normandy (died 1006)
Maud of Savoy (1125–1158), first Queen Consort of Portugal
Maud of Wales (1869–1938), also known as Maud, Queen of Norway, a member of the British Royal Family
Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne (1858–1950), wife of William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne and suffragist
Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1850–1932), British aristocrat and Vicereine of India

Arts

Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish actress
Maud Allan (1873–1956), Canadian dancer and choreographer
Maude Apatow (born 1997), American actress
Maud Tindal Atkinson (1875–1954), British painter
Maud Boyd (1867–1929), British actress and singer
Maude Fealy (1883–1971), American stage and silent film actress
Maud Forget (born 1982), French actress
Maud Gatewood (1934–2004), American painter
Maud Hansson (1937–2020), Swedish actress
Maud Cuney Hare (1874–1936), American pianist and musicologist
Maud Hawinkels (born 1976), Dutch television presenter
Maud Humphrey (1868–1940), American commercial illustrator and watercolorist
Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist
Maud Hart Lovelace (1892–1980), American writer
Alice Maud Krige (born 1954), South African actress and producer
Maud Meyer, Sierra Leonean Nigerian jazz singer
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), Canadian writer
Maud Mulder (born 1981), Dutch singer
Maud Naftel (1856-1891), English watercolour painter
Maud Nelke (1891–1982), British socialite and art patron
Maud Powell (1867–1920), American violinist
Maud Hunt Squire (1873–1954), American painter and printmaker
Maud Sulter (1960–2008), Scottish fine artist and photographer
Maud Wagner (1877–1961), American circus performer and tattoo artist
Maud Welzen (born 1993), Dutch model

Politics and activism

Maud Bregeon (born 1991), French politician
Maud Burnett (1863–1950), British politician who served as the first female mayor of Tynemouth
Maud Gatel, French politician of the Democratic Movement
Maud Lane (c. 1507 – 1558), English courtier and gentlewoman to Queen Katherine Parr
Maud Olivier (born 1953), French politician
Maud Olofsson (born 1955), Swedish politician and former leader of the Swedish Centre Party
Maud Ingersoll Probasco (1864– 1936), American suffragist and animal rights activist
Maud Thompson (1870–1962), American suffragist, women's rights activist and teacher
Maud Wood Park (1871–1955), American suffragist and women's rights activist

Other

Maud Chadburn (1868–1957), British surgeon
Maud Cunard (1872–1948), society hostess
Maud Cunnington (1869–1951), Welsh archaeologist
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio (born 1944), Dutch jurist
Maud Fontenoy (born 1977), French sailor known for rowing across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Maud Frizon (born 1941), French shoe designer
Maud Galt (c. 1620 – c. 1670), Scottish woman accused of witchcraft
Maud Gonne (1866–1953), English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, actress and long-time poetic inspiration to William Butler Yeats
Maud Herbert (born 1974), French windsurfer
Maud McCarthy (1859–1949), nursing sister and British Army matron-in-chief
Maud Menten (1879–1960), Canadian physician-scientist who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry
Maud Rosenbaum (1902–1981), Italian-American track-and-field athlete and tennis player
Maud Sellers (1861–1939), British historian and museum curator
Maud West (1880–13 March 1964), British detective
Maud Wilde (1880–1965), American physician, organizational founder, and author

Fictional

Maud, supporting protagonist of the webcomic Acception
Maud Bagshaw, character in the British period drama Downton Abbey
Maud Grimes, wheelchair-using pensioner in the British soap Coronation Street
Maud Gunneson, character in the series Penny Dreadful
Maud Muller, titular subject of the 1856 poem written by John Greenleaf Whittier
Maud Pie, older sister of Pinkie Pie from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode of the same name
Maud Smith, character in the 1913 American silent short comedy film Almost a Rescue
Maud Spellbody, Mildred's best friend in the The Worst Witch children's book series
Maud Watts, fictional working class suffragette and central character in the 2015 film Suffragette

References

^ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/mawd-ferch-mael_24776958 ^{[user-generated source]}
^ "Origin and Meaning of the Name Maud". babynamesworld. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
^ "Maud - Name Meaning and Origin". thinkbabynames.com. Retrieved 2008-09-29.