Maudie

Where Maudie comes from

Maudie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1899
    Peak, #220
    153 babies named Maudie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1902
    Maudie Dunham born
    British actress
  4. 1914
    Maudie Prickett born
    American actress
  5. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #976.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Maudie Prickett · American actress, 1914–1976
  • Maudie Dunham · British actress, 1902–1982
  • Maudie Edwards · British actress and singer, 1906–1991
  • Maudie Rachel Okittuq · lives Taloyaoak, Nunavut; artist, born 1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.