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Lily-Mae

Gender
Girl
Say it
LIL-ee-MAY
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#710 for girls

Lily-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 710th for girls in the UK (57 babies).

What does Lily-Mae mean?

Modern: combination of Lily and Mae

Joins the flower name Lily with Mae, a spelling of May.

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

Lily-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 57 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lily-Mae in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#710among girls
Babies in 2025
57about 1 in 4,900 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 41% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 57 girls in the UK were named Lily-Mae, making it the 710th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 436th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 281 girls.

Half of all the girls named Lily-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 122 girls in the UK were given Lily-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #387, up from #710 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 719th in England and Wales and 474th in Scotland.

1996Busiest: 281 in 20112025
Lily-Mae in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202557#710
202453#771
202379#534
202284#516
202187#523
2020107#436
2019118#406
201898#493
2017129#389
2016140#370
2015201#270
2014243#234
2013212#253
2012249#222
2011281#201
2010237#237
2009208#260
2008170#309
2007161#318
2006103#433
200586#471
200455#614
200332#877
200229#884
200123#1,013
200013#1,502
19999#1,921
19989#1,951
19975#2,896
19963#3,935

Nicknames for Lily-Mae

Names like Lily-Mae

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

Other spellings of Lily-Mae

Names related to Lily-Mae

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