Ellie-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- EL-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #929 for girls
Ellie-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 929th for girls in the UK (40 babies).
What does Ellie-Mae mean?
Modern: combination of Ellie and Mae
Combines Ellie with Mae, a variant of May, which began as a pet form of Mary and Margaret.
Is Ellie-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Ellie-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 40 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ellie-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 929th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 40 about 1 in 7,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 49% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 40 girls in the UK were named Ellie-Mae, making it the 929th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 550th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 211 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Ellie-Mae than any year since 1997.
Half of all the girls named Ellie-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 95 girls in the UK were given Ellie-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #465, up from #929 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 872nd in England and Wales.
Ellie-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #929 |
| 2024 | 46 | #856 |
| 2023 | 43 | #892 |
| 2022 | 59 | #689 |
| 2021 | 97 | #483 |
| 2020 | 80 | #550 |
| 2019 | 97 | #475 |
| 2018 | 74 | #611 |
| 2017 | 108 | #454 |
| 2016 | 128 | #395 |
| 2015 | 152 | #340 |
| 2014 | 181 | #290 |
| 2013 | 210 | #255 |
| 2012 | 198 | #279 |
| 2011 | 196 | #277 |
| 2010 | 207 | #271 |
| 2009 | 211 | #257 |
| 2008 | 183 | #287 |
| 2007 | 174 | #297 |
| 2006 | 130 | #361 |
| 2005 | 138 | #327 |
| 2004 | 120 | #354 |
| 2003 | 122 | #338 |
| 2002 | 112 | #345 |
| 2001 | 90 | #396 |
| 2000 | 68 | #485 |
| 1999 | 57 | #556 |
| 1998 | 58 | #542 |
| 1997 | 38 | #719 |
| 1996 | 43 | #622 |
Nicknames for Ellie-Mae
- Ellie 552 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Ellie-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Isabelle, Ella, Evie, Grace, Amelie, Evie-Mae, Lily-Mae, Erin, Millie, Ruby, Olivia, Lily
Other spellings of Ellie-Mae
Names related to Ellie-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, “Ellie-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ellie-mae, updated 20 October 2026.