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Iyla-May

Gender
Girl
Say it
EYE-la-MAY
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#5,990 for girls

Iyla-May is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).

What does Iyla-May mean?

Modern: Iyla + May

Joins Iyla (Modern) and May (English, “the month of May”).

Meanings borrowed from Iyla and May.

Is Iyla-May a girl's or a boy's name?

Iyla-May is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Iyla-May in the UK?

Rank in 2025
5,990th among girls
Babies in 2025
3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 11% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Iyla-May, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 5 girls.

In 2025, 110 girls in the UK were given Iyla-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #412, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.

2012Busiest: 5 in 20202025
Iyla-May in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20253#5,990
20245#4,253
20230–
20223#5,885
20214#4,864
20205#4,110
20190–
20184#4,914
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20123#6,108

Names like Iyla-May

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

Other spellings of Iyla-May

More Modern names

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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, “Iyla-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/iyla-may, updated 20 October 2026.