Ella-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- EL-a-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,019 for girls
Ella-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “other + month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 1,019th for girls in the UK (36 babies).
What does Ella-Mae mean?
Modern: combination of Ella and Mae
“other + month of May”
Combines Ella with Mae, a variant of May, which began as a pet form of Mary and Margaret.
Is Ella-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Ella-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 36 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ella-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,019th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 36 about 1 in 7,700 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 54% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 36 girls in the UK were named Ella-Mae, making it the 1,019th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 581st. Its busiest year was 2015, with 108 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ella-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 95 girls in the UK were given Ella-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #465, up from #1,019 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,271st in England and Wales, 387th in Scotland and 397th in Northern Ireland.
Ella-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #1,019 |
| 2024 | 32 | #1,111 |
| 2023 | 38 | #988 |
| 2022 | 52 | #757 |
| 2021 | 64 | #658 |
| 2020 | 74 | #581 |
| 2019 | 92 | #498 |
| 2018 | 62 | #706 |
| 2017 | 67 | #673 |
| 2016 | 81 | #569 |
| 2015 | 108 | #453 |
| 2014 | 86 | #550 |
| 2013 | 97 | #476 |
| 2012 | 64 | #699 |
| 2011 | 62 | #699 |
| 2010 | 61 | #672 |
| 2009 | 52 | #762 |
| 2008 | 57 | #703 |
| 2007 | 55 | #688 |
| 2006 | 29 | #1,035 |
| 2005 | 32 | #918 |
| 2004 | 30 | #949 |
| 2003 | 23 | #1,087 |
| 2002 | 30 | #867 |
| 2001 | 10 | #1,832 |
| 2000 | 11 | #1,689 |
| 1999 | 9 | #1,921 |
| 1998 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
Nicknames for Ella-Mae
- Ellie 552 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Ella-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Elodie, Evie, Evelyn, Elsie, Eliza, Elsie-Mae, Amelie, Isabelle, Beatrice, Phoebe, Emilia, Eva
Other spellings of Ella-Mae
Names related to Ella-Mae
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, “Ella-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ella-mae, updated 20 October 2026.