Tilly-Mae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- TIL-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Germanic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Tilly-Mae is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “mighty in battle + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Tilly-Mae mean?
Germanic: Tilly + Mae
“mighty in battle + the month of May”
Joins Tilly (Germanic, “mighty in battle”) and Mae (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Tilly and Mae.
Is Tilly-Mae a girl's or a boy's name?
Tilly-Mae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tilly-Mae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Tilly-Mae, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 41 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Tilly-Mae than any year since 2005.
Half of all the girls named Tilly-Mae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Tilly-Mae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Tilly-Mae 8
- Tillie-Mae 5
- Tilly-May 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Tilly-Mae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 13 | #2,202 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 13 | #2,198 |
| 2017 | 21 | #1,597 |
| 2016 | 15 | #2,015 |
| 2015 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2014 | 27 | #1,302 |
| 2013 | 41 | #967 |
| 2012 | 27 | #1,293 |
| 2011 | 19 | #1,629 |
| 2010 | 19 | #1,635 |
| 2009 | 20 | #1,507 |
| 2008 | 11 | #2,286 |
| 2007 | 10 | #2,354 |
| 2006 | 11 | #2,119 |
| 2005 | 8 | #2,555 |
| 2004 | 9 | #2,226 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
Names like Tilly-Mae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amelie, Elodie, Matilda, Lottie, Amelia, Isabelle, Evie, Heidi, Millie, Tilly, Evelyn, Beatrice
Other spellings of Tilly-Mae
Names related to Tilly-Mae
More Germanic names
Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Albie, Louie, Miles, Alice, Myles, Charles
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, “Tilly-Mae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tilly-mae, updated 20 October 2026.