Maud (given name) explained
Maud or Maude (approximately pronounced pronounced as //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
See also
Notes and References
- https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/mawd-ferch-mael_24776958
- Web site: Origin and Meaning of the Name Maud . 2008-09-29 . babynamesworld.
- Web site: Maud - Name Meaning and Origin . 2008-09-29 . thinkbabynames.com.
