Mae: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced MAY · 1 syllable

Mae means “pearl (from Margaret); the month of May”, from English.

A given name; popular as a middle name.

How popular is Mae?

Mae was the #500 name in the US in 2025, given to 594 babies. It’s rising: up 52% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1890.

Babies named Mae in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 1890).

Half of US adults named Mae are older than 72; most are between 21 and 92. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Mae have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Mae means “pearl (from Margaret); the month of May”. It comes from English.

Mae is pronounced MAY.

Mae was the #500 name in the US in 2025, given to 594 babies. It’s rising: up 52% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1890.

Half of US adults named Mae are older than 72. Most are between 21 and 92.