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Ayla-Mae

Gender
Girl
Say it
AY-la-MAY
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#2,344 for girls

Ayla-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “halo of moonlight + Mae”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).

What does Ayla-Mae mean?

Modern: combination of Ayla and Mae

“halo of moonlight + Mae”

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

Ayla-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ayla-Mae in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,344th among girls
Babies in 2025
12 about 1 in 23,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 81% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Ayla-Mae, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,780th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 19 girls.

2025 had fewer girls named Ayla-Mae than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Ayla-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales and 780th in Scotland.

2013Busiest: 19 in 20222025
Ayla-Mae in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#2,344
202416#1,881
202319#1,666
202219#1,667
202116#1,882
202017#1,780
20196#3,738
20183#5,896
20179#2,864
20168#3,105
20156#3,777
20143#5,920
20133#6,003

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