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No, I don't. I don't believe it was ever related to Maid (m, Pakistani): more likely to be a nn for 'maiden', though probably not for 'female servant'. Or perhaps it's a lengthening of May. Come to think of it, it also sounds a bit like the emergency call: Mayday, which would have been horribly familiar in WWII and might have hastened the name's decline, along with the fall in popularity of maidenliness in general.