Amara-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-MAR-a-MAY
- Origin
- Igbo
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Amara-Mae is a girls' name of Igbo origin, meaning “grace + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Amara-Mae mean?
Igbo: Amara + Mae
“grace + the month of May”
Joins Amara (Igbo, “grace”) and Mae (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Amara and Mae.
Is Amara-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Amara-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amara-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 250% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Amara-Mae, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 8 girls.
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were given Amara-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,686, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Amara-Mae 8
- Amari-Mae 4
- Amara-May 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Amara-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
Names like Amara-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amara, Ayah, Ayzal, Amal, Ayra, Ayla, Amira, Abeeha, Alaya, Nusaybah, Anabia, Raya
Other spellings of Amara-Mae
Amari-Mae
More Igbo names
Munachimso, Chimamanda, Jidenna, Kamsiyochukwu, Chizaram, Amarachi, Tobechukwu, Obi, Mazi, Adanna, Adaeze, Chidera, Chidubem, Ifechukwu, Chisom, Tobenna
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, “Amara-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amara-mae, updated 20 October 2026.