Tilly-May
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- TIL-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Germanic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Tilly-May is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “mighty in battle + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Tilly-May mean?
Germanic: Tilly + May
“mighty in battle + the month of May”
Joins Tilly (Germanic, “mighty in battle”) and May (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Tilly and May.
Is Tilly-May a girl's or a boy's name?
Tilly-May is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tilly-May in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Tilly-May, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 29 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Tilly-May than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Tilly-May in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Tilly-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Tilly-Mae 8
- Tillie-Mae 5
- Tilly-May 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Tilly-May in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 17 | #1,853 |
| 2015 | 13 | #2,186 |
| 2014 | 17 | #1,810 |
| 2013 | 29 | #1,261 |
| 2012 | 20 | #1,615 |
| 2011 | 15 | #1,917 |
| 2010 | 18 | #1,694 |
| 2009 | 16 | #1,763 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 8 | #2,657 |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
Names like Tilly-May
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tilly Amelie Amelia Matilda Daisy Lily Isabelle Ruby Heidi Elodie Sienna Evelyn
Other spellings of Tilly-May
Names related to Tilly-May
More Germanic names
Liam Henry Charlotte William Archie Charlie Emma Freddie Ella Harry Millie Albie Louie Miles Alice Myles
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-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tilly-may, updated 20 October 2026.