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How popular is the name Mei?
Births per year, rank history and how many Meis are alive today.
Mei (female) is a rare spelling of the girls' name Mai in England and Wales, ranked 2138th in 2025 and given to 13 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2010, when 26 babies were given the name, the 1218th most popular that year.
Across all spellings of the name, the Mai you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old. Half of all Mais born in England and Wales are between 10 and 22, and there are at least 1,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Mai - on average, only one in every 315 such rooms contains a Mai.
How many babies are named Mei each year?
Includes all spellings: Mei, Mai, My. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Mei spelling rank?
Where does the Mai spelling rank?
Where does the My spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Mei most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Mai, peaked in 2008, when 63 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Mei spelling itself peaked in 2010, with 26 babies.
How many people are called Mei?
At least 1,000 people named Mei in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Mei?
Most living Meis are between 10 and 22; the most common age is about 18.
Is Mei becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.