Mae

What Mae means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Mae yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1918, with 2,756 babies; 594 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mae?

US: Rising: up from #588 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #478 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1892, when 1,101 girls got the name (#52 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,706 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,345 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,491 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (1.93 per 1,000 girls), SD (1.64 per 1,000 girls), UT (1.46 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Mae is #500 in the US and #391 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Mae were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• May183 US · 64 E&W
• Mei117 US · 13 E&W
• Mai55 US · 19 E&W
• My7 US
• Moa5 US
• Mma0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Mae

Girls

• Mila#43Editor’s note Up from #53 in 2015 to #43 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 340 US girls in the 2025 records
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Penelope#22possibly “duck”^*
• Violet#13From the word “violet”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025

For a brother

• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mae’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.