Poppy-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- POP-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Poppy-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “poppy + Mae (a form of May)”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Poppy-Mae mean?
Modern: combination of Poppy and Mae
“poppy + Mae (a form of May)”
A modern double-barrelled name joining the flower name Poppy with Mae, a spelling of May.
Is Poppy-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Poppy-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 Poppy-Mae 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 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Poppy-Mae, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,431st. Its busiest year was 2014, with 44 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Poppy-Mae than any year since 2009.
Half of all the girls named Poppy-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Poppy-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Poppy-Mae 9
- Poppy-May 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Poppy-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 17 | #1,803 |
| 2023 | 18 | #1,728 |
| 2022 | 25 | #1,363 |
| 2021 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2020 | 23 | #1,431 |
| 2019 | 29 | #1,220 |
| 2018 | 15 | #2,000 |
| 2017 | 35 | #1,079 |
| 2016 | 28 | #1,291 |
| 2015 | 36 | #1,062 |
| 2014 | 44 | #925 |
| 2013 | 39 | #1,007 |
| 2012 | 26 | #1,346 |
| 2011 | 20 | #1,570 |
| 2010 | 16 | #1,829 |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 11 | #2,286 |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
Nicknames for Poppy-Mae
- Poppy 1,935 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Poppy-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Phoebe, Penelope, Beatrice, Elsie, Myla, Elodie, Violet, Sophia, Matilda, Eliza, Florence, Lottie
Other spellings of Poppy-Mae
Names related to Poppy-Mae
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
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, “Poppy-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/poppy-mae, updated 20 October 2026.