Nova-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOH-va-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,076 for girls
Nova-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “new + May”. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies).
What does Nova-Mae mean?
Modern: combination of Nova and Mae
“new + May”
Pairs Nova, from Latin novus, 'new', with Mae, a spelling of May.
Is Nova-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Nova-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nova-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,076among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 20,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popularnew in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Nova-Mae, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th.
2025 had the most girls named Nova-Mae of any year since it first appeared, in 2020.
Half of all the girls named Nova-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2021 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were given Nova-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,417, up from #2,076 for this spelling alone.
- Nova-Mae 14
- Nova-May 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.
Nova-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
Nicknames for Nova-Mae
- Nova 723 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Nova-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeve Maeva Ottilie Nora Nova Nellie Novie Bonnie Elodie Eden Ivy-Mae Athena
Other spellings of Nova-Mae
Nova-May
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, “Nova-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nova-mae, updated 20 October 2026.