Ruby-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ROO-bee-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,460 for girls
Ruby-Mae is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “red gemstone + May”. In 2025 it ranked 1,460th for girls in the UK (22 babies).
What does Ruby-Mae mean?
Modern: combination of Ruby and Mae
“red gemstone + May”
A double-barrelled pairing of the gem name Ruby with Mae, a variant of May.
Is Ruby-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Ruby-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ruby-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,460th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22 about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the UK were named Ruby-Mae, making it the 1,460th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 828th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 88 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ruby-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were given Ruby-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,110, up from #1,460 for this spelling alone.
- Ruby-Mae 22
- Ruby-May 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,407th in England and Wales.
Ruby-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #1,460 |
| 2024 | 23 | #1,449 |
| 2023 | 19 | #1,666 |
| 2022 | 16 | #1,873 |
| 2021 | 34 | #1,078 |
| 2020 | 47 | #828 |
| 2019 | 37 | #1,025 |
| 2018 | 27 | #1,298 |
| 2017 | 30 | #1,213 |
| 2016 | 54 | #786 |
| 2015 | 62 | #702 |
| 2014 | 59 | #722 |
| 2013 | 77 | #587 |
| 2012 | 88 | #536 |
| 2011 | 79 | #571 |
| 2010 | 43 | #888 |
| 2009 | 50 | #785 |
| 2008 | 43 | #843 |
| 2007 | 37 | #910 |
| 2006 | 27 | #1,087 |
| 2005 | 18 | #1,382 |
| 2004 | 10 | #2,064 |
| 2003 | 5 | #3,233 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
Nicknames for Ruby-Mae
- Ruby 1,202 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Ruby-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Beatrice, Isabelle, Amelie, Myla, Phoebe, Violet, Elsie, Evie, Matilda, Ruby, Rose, Sophia
Other spellings of Ruby-Mae
Names related to Ruby-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, “Ruby-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ruby-mae, updated 20 October 2026.