Maud (first name)
Maud is a female given name .
Origin, meaning and variants
Maud is an English form of the name Mathilda (German: Mathilde ). Another spelling is Maude .
The first name Maud developed from the old French form Mahaut for Mathilda. In the 19th century, the name was revived in English-speaking countries through the poem Maud by Alfred Tennyson (1855).
The origin of the name is from Old High German and consists of the two words 'maht' = power, mighty and 'hiltja' = the fight. So the meaning is 'The Mighty Fighter'.
Well-known namesake
Nobles
- Mathilde , Holy Roman Empress, Queen of England
- Maud Chaworth (1282-1322), wife of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
- Maud von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1869–1938), Queen of Norway
- Maud Duff, Countess of Southesk (1893–1945), British princess
- Maud Angelica Behn (* 2003), daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Politicians
- Maude Barlow (born 1947), Canadian activist
- Maud Gonne (1866–1953), Irish revolutionary
- Maud Olofsson (* 1955), Swedish politician
- Gabriele Maud Pauli (* 1957), German politician
- Maud Wood Park (1871–1955), American suffragette
Actresses and dancers
- Maud Adams (* 1945), Swedish film actress and Bond girl
- Maude Adams (1872-1953), American stage actress
- Maud Allan (1873–1956), Canadian-American dancer
- Maud Hansson (born 1937), Swedish actress
- Maud Cunitz (1911–1987), German opera singer (Nuremberg, Munich, Vienna)
Sportswomen
- Maud Barger-Wallach (1870–1954), American tennis player
- Maud Fontenoy (* 1977), French water sports enthusiast
- Maud Watson (1864-1946), British tennis player
Other
- Maud Ackermann (* 1965), German voice actress
- Maud Perceval Allen (1880–1955), English singer (soprano)
- Maud Cunnington (1869–1951), Welsh archaeologist
- Maude Hutchins (1899–1991), American writer
- Maud Linder (1924–2017), French journalist, film historian and documentary filmmaker
- Maud Menten (1879–1960), Canadian medical doctor
- Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), Canadian writer
- Maud von Ossietzky (1888–1974), wife of Carl von Ossietzky
- Maud Powell (1867–1920), American violin virtuoso
Movie
Maude is part of the film title: