Mae
Mae is ranked 530th among girls in 2024 (574 births). Its best rank was 52nd, in 1892, 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- #530down 24 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5740.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 19182,756 births
- Best rank
- #52first in 1892
- Since 1880
- 114,235people given the name
The story in the numbers
114,235 girls have been named Mae in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 2,756 births — 0.24% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 686 → 530).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 41 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mae | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5,647 | |
| 1890s | 10,918 | |
| 1900s | 12,711 | |
| 1910s | 21,530 | |
| 1920s | 22,759 | |
| 1930s | 12,860 | |
| 1940s | 8,947 | |
| 1950s | 5,542 | |
| 1960s | 2,172 | |
| 1970s | 830 | |
| 1980s | 606 | |
| 1990s | 654 | |
| 2000s | 1,714 | |
| 2010s | 4,427 | |
| 2020s | 2,918 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Mae was the 95th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Mae
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Onapeak 1916
- Lelapeak 1921
- Altapeak 1918
- Ethelpeak 1918
- Alphapeak 1916
- Olapeak 1921
- Ivapeak 1918
- Dessiepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.