Maudie
Feminine · “mighty in battle”
Maudie is Matilda at the end of a long road. The Germanic compound meant mighty in battle; medieval English wore it to Maud; the nineteenth century added an affectionate ending and made it warm.
How old is the name Maudie?
Maudie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Maudie alive today was born around 1918, making them about 107 years old. About 1,800 people named Maudie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maudie most popular?
Maudie peaked in 1899, reaching #220 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 9,237 places below that high. See the whole 1899 chart.
Where it comes from
From Mahthildis to Maudie
The story of Maudie
Matilda came to England with the Conqueror's wife and was carried by queens for two centuries, but the spoken form went its own way: Mahalt, then Maud. Victorian England revived Maud deliberately, helped by a widely read narrative poem of 1855, and American families added the affectionate -ie that they were adding to everything in that period. Maudie was registered as a legal name and peaked around 1890.
Meaning
mighty in battle
Through Maud and Matilda, from the Germanic maht, 'might', and hild, 'battle'. Both halves are ordinary words and the compound is transparent — the kind of pairing Frankish and Saxon nobility built their names from.
How the name formed
- Mahthildis
- Matilda
- Maud
- Maudie
Related forms: Mathilde · Mahaut · Maud
Pronouncing Maudie
MAW-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Maudie and Maudy are said identically.
Nicknames for Maudie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1918354 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #220reached in 1899
- Change vs 2022
- +11.1%10 in 2025, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Maudie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mathilde in German — related form
- Mahaut in French — related form
- Maud in English — related form
Maudies among us
people named Maudie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Maudie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Maudie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Maudie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maudie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Maud and Matilda are both available as formal forms with very deep records.
- Warm and immediately affectionate, which the parent forms are not.
- The meaning is transparent and both elements are documented.
- It is unmistakably a nineteenth-century American name and carries that period plainly.
- As a diminutive it stays informal unless Maud is on the certificate.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maudies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Maudie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maudie in 2025?
- Maudie ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maudie?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Maudie — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maudie with classmates?
- Maudie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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