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Maud (given name)

Maud or Maude (approximately pronounced in English) derived from the Old French name Mahaut for Matilda. It originated in Old High German and consisted of the two words 'maht' (= power, powerful) and 'hiltja' (= battle). Its meaning is thus "powerful battler" or "powerful in battle".

It is a variant of the given name Matilda, but is uncommon as a surname. The Welsh variant of this name is Mawd.

The name's popularity in 19th-century England is associated with Alfred Tennyson's poem Maud.

People with the name include

Royalty and nobility

Arts

  • Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish actress
  • Maud Aiken (1898–1978), Irish musician and director of the Municipal School of Music in Dublin
  • Maud Allan (1873–1956), Canadian dancer and choreographer
  • Maude Apatow (born 1997), American actress
  • Maud Tindal Atkinson (1875–1954), British painter
  • Maud Bodkin (1875–1967), English classical scholar
  • Maud Boyd (1867–1929), British actress and singer
  • Maud Cressall (1886–1962), British stage and silent film actress
  • Maud Diver (1867– 1945), English author in British India who wrote novels, short stories, biographies and journalistic pieces on Indian topics and about the English in India
  • Maud Durbin (1871–1936), American actress and writer
  • Maud Howe Elliott (1854–1948), American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Maude Fealy (1883–1971), American stage and silent film actress
  • Maud Forget (born 1982), French actress
  • Maud Franklin (1857–1939), British painter and mistress of and model for artist James McNeill Whistler
  • Maud Frère (1923–1979), Belgian novelist
  • 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 Hobson (1860 –1913), Australian-born English actress and burlesque performer
  • Maud Humphrey (1868–1940), American commercial illustrator and watercolorist
  • Maud Hyttenberg (1920–2009), Swedish actress
  • Maud Jeffries (1869–1946), American actress and popular subject of theatrical post-cards and photographs
  • Maud Lewis (1903–1970), Canadian folk artist
  • Maud Karpeles (1885–1976), British collector of folksongs and dance teacher
  • Maud Hart Lovelace (1892–1980), American writer
  • Alice Maud Krige (born 1954), South African actress and producer
  • Maud MacCarthy (Swami Omananda Puri; 1882–1967), Irish violinist, singer, writer, poet, esoteric teacher and authority on Indian music
  • Maud Madison (1870–1953), American actress and dancer
  • Maud Meyer, Sierra Leonean Nigerian jazz singer
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), Canadian writer
  • Maud Molyneux (1948 –2008), French transgender actress, journalist, costume designer and activist
  • Maud Morgan (1860–1941), American harpist
  • Maud Morgan (1903–1999), American modern and abstract expressionist artist and art teacher
  • Maud Mulder (born 1981), Dutch singer who placed second in TV series Idols Netherlands
  • Maud Naftel (1856–1891), English watercolour painter
  • Maud Powell (1867–1920), American violinist
  • Maud Julia Augusta Russell (1891–1982), British socialite and art patron
  • 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
  • Maud Wyler (born 1982), French actress

Politics and activism

  • Maud Bregeon (born 1991), French politician
  • Maud Adeline Cloudesley Brereton (1872–1946), British feminist and sanitary reformer
  • Maud Burnett (1863–1950), British politician who served as the first female mayor of Tynemouth
  • Maud Gatel, French politician of the Democratic Movement
  • Maud Gonne (1866–1953), English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, actress and long-time poetic inspiration to William Butler Yeats
  • 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 von Ossietzky (1888–1974), Anglo-Indian suffragette and political activist in Germany
  • Maud Wood Park (1871–1955), American suffragist and women's rights activist

Sport

Other

  • Maud Chadburn (1868–1957), British surgeon
  • Maud Cunard (1872–1948), American society hostess
  • Maud Cunnington (1869–1951), Welsh archaeologist
  • Maud de Boer-Buquicchio (born 1944), Dutch jurist
  • Maud Darwin (1861–1947), American socialite
  • Maud Frizon (born 1941), French shoe designer
  • Maud Galt (c. 1620 – c. 1670), Scottish woman accused of witchcraft
  • 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 Oakes (1903–1990), American ethnologist and writer who published research about the cultures of indigenous tribes in the Americas
  • Maud Sellers (1861–1939), British historian and museum curator
  • Maud Slye (1879 –1954), American pathologist
  • Maud West (1880–13 March 1964), British detective
  • Maud Wilde (1880–1965), American physician, organizational founder, and author

Fictional

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