# Mae (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mae/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Mai |
| US babies named this | 115,441 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 606 / 114,835 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,693, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 337 | 804 |
| 2012 | 373 | 749 |
| 2013 | 419 | 676 |
| 2014 | 413 | 686 |
| 2015 | 513 | 588 |
| 2016 | 535 | 579 |
| 2017 | 461 | 640 |
| 2018 | 561 | 553 |
| 2019 | 556 | 549 |
| 2020 | 511 | 576 |
| 2021 | 622 | 502 |
| 2022 | 614 | 511 |
| 2023 | 599 | 506 |
| 2024 | 578 | 529 |
| 2025 | 594 | 501 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 6 | 3,336 |
| 1941 | 8 | 2,800 |
| 1942 | 17 | 1,779 |
| 1943 | 9 | 2,667 |
| 1944 | 11 | 2,266 |
| 1945 | 14 | 1,900 |
| 1946 | 5 | 3,824 |
| 1947 | 9 | 2,792 |
| 1949 | 6 | 3,561 |
| 1950 | 8 | 2,937 |
| 1952 | 6 | 3,597 |
| 1955 | 9 | 2,893 |
| 1957 | 7 | 3,440 |
| 1958 | 6 | 3,785 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,433 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 88 | 486 |
| 2012 | 88 | 499 |
| 2013 | 93 | 450 |
| 2014 | 86 | 494 |
| 2015 | 90 | 478 |
| 2016 | 85 | 509 |
| 2017 | 66 | 631 |
| 2018 | 65 | 624 |
| 2019 | 75 | 537 |
| 2020 | 93 | 445 |
| 2021 | 91 | 469 |
| 2022 | 91 | 462 |
| 2023 | 95 | 429 |
| 2024 | 95 | 443 |
| 2025 | 108 | 391 |

## People named Mae

- Mae West, American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980)
- Mae Jemison, American doctor and NASA astronaut
- Mae Marsh, American actress (1894-1968)
- Mae Muller, British singer
- Mae Busch, American actress (1891-1946)
- Mae Questel, American actress (1908–1998)
- Mae Clarke, American actress (1910–1992)
- Hana Mae Lee, American actress
- Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, film producer, screenwriter (1885–1965)
- Mae Young, American professional wrestler (1923–2014)
- Nina Mae McKinney, American actress (1912-1967)
- Mae Faggs, American Sprinter, first female athletic scholarship

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.