- Maud (name)
Maud (maud, pronounced "mawd"), is an
Old German feminine given name meaning "powerful battler". It's a variant of the given nameMatilda , and it's uncommon as asurname .The name's popularity in 19th century England is associated withAlfred Lord Tennyson 's poem "Maud". [cite web |url=http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Maud.html |title=Origin and Meaning of the Name Maud |accessdate=2008-09-29 |publisher=babynamesworld] [cite web |url=http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Maud |title=Maud - Name Meaning and Origin |accessdate=2008-09-29 |publisher=thinkbabynames.com] People with the name include:*
Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (1074–1130), daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria and heir to his earldom of Huntingdon
*Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish actress
*Maud Gonne (1866–1953), English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, actress and long time poetic inspiration to William Butler Yeats
*Maud Mulder (born 1981), Dutch singer
*Maud of Wales (1869–1938), also known as "Maud, Queen of Norway", a member of the British Royal Family
*Princess Maud of Fife (1893–1945), a member of the British Royal Family
*Empress Matilda , (1102–1169), also known by her Saxon name "Maud" or "Maude", daughter of King Henry I of England and mother to King Henry II of EnglandReferences
ee also
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Matilda
*Maude
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