May
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
#1,233
up +128 places
2025 births
183
up +15 births
All-time births
49,400
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1919
- 981 births
- Best rank
- #57
- in 1880
- First recorded
- 1880
- #57 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1924
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1919981#194Peak
- 1921977#205
- 1915974#175
- 1918961#200
- 1920956#204
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #57 in 1880 · peak births 981 in 1919
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
699 boys · 49,400 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where May has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.