Lyra-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LY-ra-MAY
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Lyra-Mae is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “lyre + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Lyra-Mae mean?
Greek: Lyra + Mae
“lyre + the month of May”
Joins Lyra (Greek, “lyre”) and Mae (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Lyra and Mae.
Is Lyra-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Lyra-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lyra-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 88% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Lyra-Mae, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th.
2025 had the most girls named Lyra-Mae of any year since it first appeared, in 2014.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Lyra-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
Names like Lyra-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Athena, Ottilie, Daphne, Penelope, Lottie, Bonnie, Callie, Margot, Cleo, Elodie, Lyra, Ophelia
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Phoebe, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris, Maisie
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, “Lyra-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lyra-mae, updated 20 October 2026.