Maggie-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAG-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,642 for girls
Maggie-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “pearl + May”. In 2025 it ranked 1,642nd for girls in the UK (19 babies).
What does Maggie-Mae mean?
Modern: combination of Maggie and Mae
“pearl + May”
Pairs Maggie, a pet form of Margaret, 'pearl', with Mae; Maggie May is also a traditional Liverpool folk song.
Is Maggie-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Maggie-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maggie-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,642among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were named Maggie-Mae, making it the 1,642nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th.
2025 had the most girls named Maggie-Mae of any year since it first appeared, in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Maggie-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were given Maggie-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,081, up from #1,642 for this spelling alone.
- Maggie-Mae 19
- Maggie-May 9
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,584th in England and Wales.
Maggie-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #1,642 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
Nicknames for Maggie-Mae
- Maggie 308 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Maggie-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Myla Ottilie Marnie Elodie Matilda Mabel Mila Elsie Lottie Margot Bonnie Delilah
Other spellings of Maggie-Mae
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna 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, “Maggie-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maggie-mae, updated 20 October 2026.