Lyla-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LY-la-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,324 for girls
Lyla-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “night + May”. In 2025 it ranked 1,324th for girls in the UK (25 babies).
What does Lyla-Mae mean?
Modern: blend of Lyla and Mae
“night + May”
Pairs Lyla, a form of Layla, with Mae, a form of May.
Is Lyla-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Lyla-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 25 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lyla-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 25 about 1 in 11,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 41% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 25 girls in the UK were named Lyla-Mae, making it the 1,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,948th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 29 girls.
Half of all the girls named Lyla-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 59 girls in the UK were given Lyla-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #641, up from #1,324 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,271st in England and Wales.
Lyla-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #1,324 |
| 2024 | 12 | #2,323 |
| 2023 | 18 | #1,728 |
| 2022 | 19 | #1,667 |
| 2021 | 29 | #1,231 |
| 2020 | 15 | #1,948 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 15 | #2,000 |
| 2017 | 11 | #2,485 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 1 | #7,592 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
Nicknames for Lyla-Mae
- Lyla 857 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Lyla-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Liyana, Lottie, Ottilie, Amira, Ayla, Khadija, Ayah, Elodie, Nusaybah, Alayna, Ayra, Elsie
Other spellings of Lyla-Mae
Lilah-Mae, Lila-Mae, Lylah-Mae, Lyla-May, Lila-May
Names related to Lyla-Mae
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
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, “Lyla-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lyla-mae, updated 20 October 2026.