Lillie-May
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LIL-ee-MAY
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Lillie-May is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “lily + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Lillie-May mean?
English: Lillie + May
“lily + the month of May”
Joins Lillie (English, “lily”) and May (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Lillie and May.
Is Lillie-May a girl's or a boy's name?
Lillie-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 Lillie-May in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 65% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Lillie-May, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 43 girls.
Half of all the girls named Lillie-May in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 122 girls in the UK were given Lillie-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #387, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Lily-Mae 57
- Lilly-Mae 17
- Lily-May 16
- Lillie-Mae 16
- Lilly-May 13
- Lillie-May 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Lillie-May in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 10 | #2,590 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 12 | #2,336 |
| 2016 | 16 | #1,941 |
| 2015 | 26 | #1,353 |
| 2014 | 23 | #1,452 |
| 2013 | 27 | #1,324 |
| 2012 | 38 | #1,019 |
| 2011 | 43 | #903 |
| 2010 | 30 | #1,167 |
| 2009 | 26 | #1,245 |
| 2008 | 19 | #1,548 |
| 2007 | 30 | #1,057 |
| 2006 | 11 | #2,119 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
Names like Lillie-May
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lily, Ruby, Daisy, Scarlett, Evie, Isabelle, Violet, Poppy, Gracie, Evelyn, Lyla, Ivy
Other spellings of Lillie-May
Names related to Lillie-May
More English names
Hudson, Harper, Grace, Willow, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Hallie, Hazel, Carter, Harrison, River, 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, “Lillie-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lillie-may, updated 20 October 2026.