Aurora-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- aw-ROR-a-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,416 for girls
Aurora-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “dawn + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 1,416th for girls in the UK (23 babies).
What does Aurora-Mae mean?
Modern: combination of Aurora and Mae
“dawn + the month of May”
Aurora is the Roman goddess of the dawn; Mae is a spelling of May.
Is Aurora-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Aurora-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aurora-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,416th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 12,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 174% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the UK were named Aurora-Mae, making it the 1,416th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Aurora-Mae of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Half of all the girls named Aurora-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were given Aurora-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,081, up from #1,416 for this spelling alone.
- Aurora-Mae 23
- Aurora-May 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,362nd in England and Wales.
Aurora-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #1,416 |
| 2024 | 17 | #1,803 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
Nicknames for Aurora-Mae
- Rory 2,132 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Aurora-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arabella, Penelope, Ottilie, Athena, Aurora, Maeve, Aurelia, Annie, Ariella, Bonnie, Ophelia, Rosie
Other spellings of Aurora-Mae
Aurora-May
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Aurora-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aurora-mae, updated 20 October 2026.