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Arabella-Mae

Gender
Girl
Say it
a-ra-BEL-a-MAY
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#2,076 for girls

Arabella-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies).

What does Arabella-Mae mean?

Modern: combination of Arabella and Mae

Arabella is a medieval Scottish name; Mae is a spelling of May, an old pet form of Mary and Margaret.

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

Arabella-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Arabella-Mae in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,076th among girls
Babies in 2025
14 about 1 in 20,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 81% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Arabella-Mae, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Arabella-Mae of any year since it first appeared, in 2019.

Half of all the girls named Arabella-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were given Arabella-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,459, up from #2,076 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.

2019Busiest: 14 in 20252025
Arabella-Mae in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#2,076
20248#3,076
20237#3,388
20223#5,885
20219#2,846
202010#2,566
20196#3,738

Nicknames for Arabella-Mae

Names like Arabella-Mae

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

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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, “Arabella-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/arabella-mae, updated 20 October 2026.