Maggie-May
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAG-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Maggie-May is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “pearl + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Maggie-May mean?
Greek: Maggie + May
“pearl + the month of May”
Joins Maggie (Greek, “pearl”) and May (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Maggie and May.
Is Maggie-May a girl's or a boy's name?
Maggie-May is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maggie-May in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 33% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Maggie-May, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 16 girls.
2025 had more girls named Maggie-May than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Maggie-May in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were given Maggie-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,081, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Maggie-Mae 19
- Maggie-May 9
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Maggie-May in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 16 | #1,871 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 11 | #2,510 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
Names like Maggie-May
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sophia, Matilda, Margot, Ivy, Dorothy, Maggie, Penelope, Athena, Mila, Violet, Phoebe, Maria
Other spellings of Maggie-May
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris, Maisie, Lainey, Elena
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-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maggie-may, updated 20 October 2026.