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Matilda-Mae

Gender
Girl
Say it
ma-TIL-da-MAY
Origin
Germanic
UK rank, 2025
#2,856 for girls

Matilda-Mae is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “mighty in battle + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).

What does Matilda-Mae mean?

Germanic: Matilda + Mae

“mighty in battle + the month of May”

Joins Matilda (Germanic, “mighty in battle”) and Mae (English, “the month of May”).

Meanings borrowed from Matilda and Mae.

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

Matilda-Mae 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 Matilda-Mae in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,856th among girls
Babies in 2025
9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 45% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Matilda-Mae, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th.

2025 had the most girls named Matilda-Mae of any year since it first appeared, in 2016.

In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Matilda-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.

2016Busiest: 9 in 20252025
Matilda-Mae in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#2,856
20244#4,907
20233#5,929
20224#4,870
20210–
20206#3,630
20195#4,214
20180–
20175#4,250
20164#4,980

Names like Matilda-Mae

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

Other spellings of Matilda-Mae

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