Mae

Maé (or Mae) is a female but sometimes male first name.

This first name gained in popularity for the births of girls Francophones with the 21e century… (source: INSEE)

Here some of its origins:

  • Polynesian: " drip of mer"

  • Thai (research in progress…)
  • Portuguese: " maman"
  • Celtic/Gaelic: " Mary" (first name), prince
  • English (old): " month of mai"
  • sanscrite : " illusion"
  • Hebraic, Greek: " chef"

Homonymy

; Maé like first name:
  • the actress Mae West
  • the actress Mae Busch
  • the astronaut Mae Carol Jemison
  • the violonist Vanessa-Mae (Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson)

; Maé like name:

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