It's a big stretch to use Maude as short for Matilda, because Maude in itself is a shortened version of another name, magdalene.
I really hate Matilda, but even Matilda is not as ugly as Maude.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall