Mae

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mae: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mae: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #180, reached in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
62times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#180highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#620
1997	#598
1998	#583
1999	#539
2000	#391
2001	#364
2002	#413
2003	#402
2004	#384
2005	#418
2006	#346
2007	#268
2008	#319
2009	#359
2010	#409
2011	#486
2012	#499
2013	#450
2014	#494
2015	#478
2016	#509
2017	#631
2018	#624
2019	#537
2020	#445
2021	#469
2022	#462
2023	#429
2024	#443

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #197 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #443 among girls in England and Wales, #476 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #620 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1999–2025
Highest recorded position: #180 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 1999–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #180 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Mae appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,585 births with the name.

Mae across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mae's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#620 (1996)	#268 (2007)	#443 (2024)	29 of 29	2,585 (1996–2024)	179 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#528 (1999)	#180 (2025)	#180 (2025)	23 of 27	315 (1999–2025)	26 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#413 (2007)	#263 (2019)	#328 (2023)	9 of 17	36 (2007–2023)	6 (2019)

Mae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mae in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	179	4 of 10	45
2000sbusiest	1,098	10 of 10	110
2010s	843	10 of 10	84
2020s	465	5 of 10	93

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 110 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2006 and 2007, when recorded births rose by 54, from 125 to 179.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mae appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #180 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Mae's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#443	95	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#429	95	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#462	91	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#469	91	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#445	93	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#537	75	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#624	65	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#631	66	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#509	85	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#478	90	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#494	86	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#450	93	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#499	88	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#486	88	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#409	107	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#359	121	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#319	144	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#268	179	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#346	125	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#418	89	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#384	99	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#402	90	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#413	79	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#364	90	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#391	82	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#539	52	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#583	45	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#598	43	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#620	39	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#311	5	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#180	26	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#197	22	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#226	18	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#214	21	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#221	21	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#197	23	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#201	24	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#218	22	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#341	12	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#254	18	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#274	18	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	10	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#371	13	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#359	13	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	7	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	10	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#501	8	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#549	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #180, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 179 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Madoc · #1224, 21y
Mads · #46, 80y
Maebh · #201, 46y
Mael · #1363, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ally · #180, 30y
Ellie-Mae · #180, 30y
Roan · #180, 30y
Alara · #179, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ally · #180, 30y
Ellie-Mae · #180, 30y
Roan · #180, 30y
Alara · #179, 28y

Mae was ranked #180 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mae and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mae without appearing here.

Mae moved ahead of

Jude Compare
In 2011 they stood at #764 and #502 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #371 and #907.
Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #391 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #364 and #871.
Tracy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #549 and #549 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #439 and #893.
Laila Compare
In 2017 they stood at #341 and #341 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2018 that had become #218 and #629.

Moved ahead of Mae

Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #402 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #384 and #155.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #409 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #486 and #261.
Alma Compare
In 2016 they stood at #509 and #529 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #631 and #413.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #486 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #499 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Mae

Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mae went from #528 to #180 while Aimee went from #68 to #885.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mae went from #528 to #180 while Aisling went from #25 to #180.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mae went from #528 to #180 while Alex went from #185 to #304.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mae went from #528 to #180 while Alexandra went from #91 to #141.

Moved the same way as Mae

Alice Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mae went from #528 to #180 and Alice from #87 to #41.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mae went from #528 to #180 and Alma from #528 to #226.
Amelia Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mae went from #528 to #180 and Amelia from #322 to #12.
Annie Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mae went from #528 to #180 and Annie from #149 to #33.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #180 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mae

Mae at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mae across 3 official records

Mae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mae appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mae

Mae and the names beside it

Mae moved ahead of

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Mae at a glance

Mae across 3 official records

Mae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mae appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mae

Mae and the names beside it

Mae moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mae

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