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Harper-Mae

Gender
Girl
Say it
HAR-per-MAY
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#1,642 for girls

Harper-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “harp player + Mae”. In 2025 it ranked 1,642nd for girls in the UK (19 babies).

What does Harper-Mae mean?

Modern: combination of Harper and Mae

“harp player + Mae”

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

Harper-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Harper-Mae in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,642nd among girls
Babies in 2025
19 about 1 in 15,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 31% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were named Harper-Mae, making it the 1,642nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,480th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 34 girls.

2025 had fewer girls named Harper-Mae than any year since 2018.

Half of all the girls named Harper-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 25 girls in the UK were given Harper-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,169, up from #1,642 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,584th in England and Wales.

2012Busiest: 34 in 20232025
Harper-Mae in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202519#1,642
202427#1,288
202334#1,075
202224#1,406
202123#1,448
202022#1,480
201922#1,485
201817#1,810
201720#1,647
201613#2,224
201511#2,458
20144#4,888
20134#4,953
20123#6,108

Names like Harper-Mae

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

Other spellings of Harper-Mae

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