Maude (also Maud) is the medieval English form of Matilda — from the Old Germanic maht (might) + hild (battle). **A top-20 US baby name in the 1880s and 1890s, peaking at #15 in 1881**. **Maud Gonne (1866-1953)** — Irish revolutionary, suffragette, and the lifelong muse of W. B. Yeats; **his 1893 poem *When You Are Old* — "How many loved your moments of glad grace" — is among the most-quoted English love poems**. **Maude Adams (1872-1953)** — American actress who **created the role of Peter Pan on Broadway in 1905** and was the highest-paid American actress of her era. **Maud Lewis (1903-1970)** — Canadian folk painter.
Subject of Yeats's poetry and Aisling Walsh's *Maudie* (2016 film) on Maud Lewis.
Maude reduces to three — the number of mighty in battle.