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I think May and Mae are lovely. They work so nicely with so many names, so either makes a great mn. They work for a fn too and as a fn I prefer Mae. It just looks a bit more namey to me. Maia is ok, but I prefer Maya and prefer just May / Mae even more. Maybelle is also a name I like, though more of a gp and more for a mn.

I think May sounds and looks cute, perfect name for every woman. I don't like Mae, I think it is a butchered version of May. I would also prefer Maya over Maia and May, pronounced as MAH-yah.

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I would pair it as May Louise, May Caroline, May Vivian, and/or May Jessica.

May and Mae are both lovely. I once preferred Mae, but now I prefer May because of how humdrumly lovely it is.

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Maia's aura is totally different. While I prefer it to Maya, I don't care for it.

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Some combos:

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May Françoise
May Celeste / Celestine
May Winifred
May Genevieve
May Beatrice
May Juliet
May Cecilia / Cecile / Cecily
May Cicely
May Larisa
May Sylvia
May Sophia
May Dorothy
May Saskia
May Florence
May Wilhelmine
May Susan
May Lilias
May Felicity
May Gwyneth
May Maxine
May Martine
May Letitia
May Vivien
May Norma
May Gladys
May Theresa
May Lenore

I personally prefer Mae because it gives me more vintage vibes. I do really like it! It's short and sweet.

It’s pretty, and I prefer May to Mae. Maia is ok but a bit boring.

It's so pretty, simple and nice. It suited for middle name only.

I prefer Maya

I like May. I think of a pretty blonde girl with flowers in her hair. It's such a nice name.

I think May is a sweet name that has great potential to become annoying, the same way Lily, Ella, Mia etc do. Short vintage names always seem to have that risk to them. I think too much May would strip it of its delicate appeal.

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I prefer Mae slightly, because it has a stronger personality. Mae is a scrapper.

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May is the middle is lovely if a bit bland. Mae in the middle is twangy and bumpkin cute. It is an excellent middle syllable though, and I wouldn't be surprised if it gets more popular there.

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Something like May Eloise or May Lillian would be pretty. Mae is harder to combo.... Maybe something like Mae Jeannine or Mae Frances? It needs something with a bit more edge than pretty little May.

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I do love Maia, that's an old childhood fave, it's beautiful, light, and mythological, just my type of thing when I was 10. And I know it's trendy nowadays, but the only one I ever met was a Maya and she'd be in her 40s by now!

May and Maia are so popular here, I'm really quite sick of them. I even know a boy named May. I dislike Maia because I don't like names from foreign mythologies.

Its boring, but I understand its appeal. Its sweet, short and sounds good with any first name. I prefer Mae though, it looks cuter in my opinion. I also really like Maya (mie-uh). Maia seems awkward.

This message was edited 5/3/2022, 11:16 AM

May is a family name, but I'd only use it as a mn, if at all. It is a flower, a month, a surname ... pretty enough, but flimsy as a fn.

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Mae is no doubt fine if one is American. I think it looks silly. Maia would be OK for someone else or her daughter: I don't enjoy the sound much, although I love the German cartoon bee.

I wouldn't use it. At best it would be a middle name. But I highly doubt it.