Orla-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- OR-la-MAY
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Orla-Mae is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “golden princess + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Orla-Mae mean?
Irish: Orla + Mae
“golden princess + the month of May”
Joins Orla (Irish, “golden princess”) and Mae (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Orla and Mae.
Is Orla-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Orla-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Orla-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 14% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Orla-Mae, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 11 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Orla-Mae than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Orla-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Orla-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 10 | #2,615 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 1 | #6,685 |
Names like Orla-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeve Orla Fiadh Ottilie Eden Maeva Aoife Kiara Rosie Olive Bonnie Rowan
More Irish names
Oscar Rory Finn Aiden Ryan Nolan Quinn Cody Erin Ronan Connor Declan Casey Kennedy Callan Lennon
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, “Orla-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/orla-mae, updated 20 October 2026.