Annamay
Feminine
Annamay is two names written as one word, and the second of them is a month. The Romans named that month after a goddess and then spent centuries disagreeing about who she was.
How old is the name Annamay?
Annamay first appears in US birth records in 1909 — 116 years ago. The typical Annamay alive today was born around 1929, making them about 96 years old. About 200 people named Annamay are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Annamay most popular?
Annamay peaked in 1922, reaching #1269 nationally. See the whole 1922 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Annamay
Ovid, writing a poem explaining the Roman calendar, gets to May and offers three competing explanations without deciding between them: that it is named for the goddess Maia, that it honors the elders, the maiores, or that it comes from a word for growth. Maia herself is a shadowy figure even in Roman religion, with a festival, an old priest attached to her, and almost no stories. Modern scholarship has not improved much on Ovid's shrug. So one of the twelve months of the western calendar is named after a goddess whose own people could not tell you what she did, which is a good reminder of how much gets carried forward simply because nobody stopped.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The first half is a well-documented name from Hebrew through Greek. The second may be the month, the flowering hawthorn, or a short form of Mary, and the record does not choose.
Pronouncing Annamay
AN-uh-may
Three syllables with the stress in front and a strong beat at the end.
Nicknames for Annamay
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1909
- Most girls named
- 192238 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1269reached in 1922
- Change vs 2018
- −14.3%6 in 2019, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Annamays among us
people named Annamay are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Annamay sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves are entirely familiar, so it is never a puzzle to say.
- Anna and May are both available as short forms and both are established names.
- It names two people at once, which is what double names are for.
- Written solid it will be split, hyphenated and reordered by forms for life.
- It reads as a name of a much older American generation, which is either the appeal or the obstacle.
- No origin is documented for the compound, so the meaning question belongs to each half separately.
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Frequently asked
- How many Annamays are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Annamay are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Annamay in 2025?
- Annamay is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Annamay with classmates?
- Annamay will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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