Meaning and history
May is derived from the name of the month, which comes from Maia, the Roman goddess. It is also another name for the hawthorn flower and has been used as a diminutive of Mary, Margaret, or Mabel.
20062006: 75 births, rank #2,459
2007: 92 births, rank #2,163
2008: 94 births, rank #2,137
2009: 80 births, rank #2,396
2010: 107 births, rank #1,886
20112011: 88 births, rank #2,156
2012: 106 births, rank #1,886
2013: 109 births, rank #1,849
2014: 138 births, rank #1,569
2015: 130 births, rank #1,643
20162016: 131 births, rank #1,649
2017: 128 births, rank #1,677
2018: 129 births, rank #1,640
2019: 133 births, rank #1,598
2020: 119 births, rank #1,704
20212021: 123 births, rank #1,680
2022: 155 births, rank #1,443
2023: 156 births, rank #1,430
2024: 168 births, rank #1,358
20252025: 183 births, rank #1,229
May rose from #999 to #964 for girls between 1965 and 1982. Its highest annual birth count came in 1919, with 981 births.