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Ada-Mae

Gender
Girl
Say it
AY-da-MAY
Origin
Germanic
UK rank, 2025
#2,675 for girls

Ada-Mae is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 2,675th for girls in the UK (10 babies).

What does Ada-Mae mean?

Germanic: Ada + Mae

“noble + the month of May”

Joins Ada (Germanic, “noble”) and Mae (English, “the month of May”).

Meanings borrowed from Ada and Mae.

Is Ada-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?

Ada-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ada-Mae in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#2,675among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 28,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 95% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were named Ada-Mae, making it the 2,675th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,159th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 19 girls.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Ada-Mae than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Ada-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 29 girls in the UK were given Ada-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #2,675 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,603rd in England and Wales.

2017Busiest: 19 in 20222025
Ada-Mae in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#2,675
202414#2,057
202317#1,798
202219#1,667
202118#1,726
202013#2,159
20198#3,018
20180–
20176#3,774

Names like Ada-Mae

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ada-Mae

Names related to Ada-Mae

More Germanic names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ada-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ada-mae, updated 20 October 2026.