Raya-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RY-a-MAY
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Raya-Mae is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “friend, companion + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Raya-Mae mean?
Hebrew: Raya + Mae
“friend, companion + the month of May”
Joins Raya (Hebrew, “friend, companion”) and Mae (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Raya and Mae.
Is Raya-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Raya-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Raya-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,344among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popularnew in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Raya-Mae, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Raya-Mae of any year since it first appeared, in 2013.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Raya-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
Names like Raya-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Raya Nusaybah Rehmat Ayah Ruqayyah Abeeha Safa Ayzal Halima Rahma Khadija Hafsa
Names related to Raya-Mae
More Hebrew names
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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, “Raya-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raya-mae, updated 20 October 2026.