Harper-May
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAR-per-MAY
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Harper-May is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “harp player + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Harper-May mean?
English: Harper + May
“harp player + the month of May”
Joins Harper (English, “harp player”) and May (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Harper and May.
Is Harper-May a girl's or a boy's name?
Harper-May is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Harper-May in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 18% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Harper-May, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Harper-May 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-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,169, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
- Harper-Mae 19
- Harper-May 6
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Harper-May in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
Names like Harper-May
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hazel, Harper, Ivy, River, Hallie, Evelyn, Ottilie, Violet, Aria, Aurora, Navy, Everly
Other spellings of Harper-May
Names related to Harper-May
More English names
Lily, Hudson, Grace, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Carter, Harrison, Ellie, Frankie, Grayson
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-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/harper-may, updated 20 October 2026.