River-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RIV-er-MAY
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
River-Mae is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “river + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies).
What does River-Mae mean?
English: River + Mae
“river + the month of May”
Joins River (English, “river”) and Mae (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from River and Mae.
Is River-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
River-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is River-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 61% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named River-Mae, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 29 girls.
Half of all the girls named River-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given River-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #2,206 for this spelling alone.
- River-Mae 13
- River-May 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
River-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 12 | #2,323 |
| 2023 | 20 | #1,611 |
| 2022 | 29 | #1,211 |
| 2021 | 14 | #2,069 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
Names like River-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Rosie, Ottilie, Nellie, Olive, Hallie, Hazel, Evelyn, Bonnie, Elodie, Harper, Ivy, Riley
Other spellings of River-Mae
River-May
More English names
Lily, Hudson, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Carter, Harrison, River, Ellie, Frankie
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, “River-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/river-mae, updated 20 October 2026.