Nellie-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NEL-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Nellie-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Nellie-Mae mean?
Modern: combination of Nellie and Mae
Joins Nellie, a pet form of Eleanor and Helen, with Mae, a variant of May.
Is Nellie-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Nellie-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 Nellie-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 3% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Nellie-Mae, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,948th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 20 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Nellie-Mae than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Nellie-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Nellie-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 20 | #1,591 |
| 2021 | 15 | #1,981 |
| 2020 | 15 | #1,948 |
| 2019 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
Nicknames for Nellie-Mae
- Nellie 476 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Nellie-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ottilie, Nellie, Bonnie, Rosie, Elodie, Nora, Nova, Marnie, Ivy-Rose, Athena, Winnie, Aurora
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Nellie-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nellie-mae, updated 20 October 2026.