May (given name)

May

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Latin or Arabic
Meaning	the month of May, Flower
Other names
Related names	nickname for Mary or Maya, Maia

May is an English feminine given name. It is derived from the name of the month, which comes from Maia, the name of a Roman fertility goddess. The name May is also used as a pet form of Mary and Margaret.

People

• May J. (born 1988), Japanese singer
• May Allison (1890–1989), American actress
• May Allison (athlete) (born 1964), Canadian runner
• May Chow, Canadian chef
• Elsie May Kittredge (1870–1954), US botanist
• Lady May Abel Smith (1906–1994), member of the British Royal Family
• May McAvoy (1899–1984), American actor
• May W. Newburger (1920–2012), New York politician
• May Robson (1858–1942), Australian actress
• May Sarton (1912–1995), American poet and novelist
• Dame May Whitty (1865–1948), English actress
• May Gibbs (1877–1969), Australian children's author and illustrator
• Georgia May Jagger (born 1992), British model, Mick Jagger's daughter.
• Annie May Hurd Karrer (b. 1893), US plant physiologist

Fictional characters

• Aunt May, Spider-Man's aunt and primary caregiver
• May Bellamy, girlfriend of John Dortmunder in novels by Donald Westlake.
• May Lee (The King of Fighters), a character from The King of Fighters series
• Melinda May, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (played by Ming-Na Wen) in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and subsequently appearing in Marvel comics.
• May (Guilty Gear), a character in the Guilty Gear video game series
• May (Pokémon), a character in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire as well as the anime series
• May, a fictional character played by Laura Wilson from television series The Tribe (1999–2003)
• May, a character from the show Sid the Science Kid

See also

• May (surname), surname origin, and people with the surname
• Baron May, nobility, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Mary
• Mei (given name), also spelled as May
• Mae (given name)