May

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , a Roman earth goddess.

Proper noun

 * 1) The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.
 * 2) * Before 1789, "," traditional ballad, collected in Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittridge (1886), The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. II, part II, p. 277:
 * All in the merry month of May, / When green leaves they was springing, / This young man on his death-bed lay, / For the love of Barbara Allen.
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Usage notes

 * May (or Mae) is often used in conjoined names (e.g., Lillie Mae, Katie Mae, Fannie Mae).

Translations

 * Abaza: май
 * Abkhaz: лаҵара
 * Adyghe: жъоныгъуакӏ
 * Afrikaans:
 * Alabama: hasiholtina istatáɬɬàapi, Meyka
 * Albanian:
 * Alutiiq: Nikllit Iraluat
 * Amharic: መይ
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: Itsáh Hashkēē
 * Arabic:, ايار
 * Egyptian Arabic: مايو
 * Hijazi Arabic: مايو, ميي
 * Aragonese:
 * Aramaic: אִיָּר
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܵܪ
 * Classical Syriac: ܐܝܪ
 * Turoyo: ܐܝـܝܰܪ
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: մայիս
 * Aromanian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Bavarian: Moa
 * Belarusian: ,
 * Bengali:
 * Bislama: mei
 * Breton:, miz Mae
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, ငါးလ
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: Mikat
 * Chechen: Стигалкъекъа-бутт
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏍᎬᏘ
 * Chichewa: Meyi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 五月
 * Dungan: вуйүә
 * Hakka: 五月
 * Hokkien: 五月
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: мимлыръылин, имԓыръыԓин
 * Chuvash: şu, Ҫу
 * Coptic: ⲙⲁⲓⲟⲥ
 * Cornish: mys Me
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Dakota: Wožupiwi
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Dzongkha: སྤྱི་ཟླ་ལྔ་པ།
 * Erzya: панжиков
 * Esperanto:, Majo
 * Estonian:, maikuu,
 * Ewe: Damɛ, Mai
 * Faroese: mai
 * Fijian: May
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: Mai
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gilbertese: Mei
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic: maaji
 * Haitian Creole: me
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: Mei
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, maímánuður
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: mei
 * Interlingua:
 * Inupiaq: Nuġġiaqtuġvik, Suppivik
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: Mie
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: mei
 * Kabuverdianu: maiu
 * Kalmyk: хөн сар
 * Kambera: wulang lima
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: Pángalimang búlan, Máyu
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: Mũgira Njara
 * Kongo: mayi
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: mé
 * Lao: ເດືອນພຶດສາພາ, ພຶດສາພາ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lezgi: тӏул
 * Limburgish: Mei
 * Lingala:
 * Lithuanian:, gegužis
 * Livonian: maij, lēḑkū
 * Lombard: maasc
 * Louisiana Creole: mê
 * Low German: Mai, Maimaand
 * Luxembourgish: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: ᠰᡠᠨᠵᠠ ᠪᡳ᠍ᠶᠠ
 * Maori: Haratua, Mei
 * Mingrelian: მესი
 * Mirandese: Maio
 * Mòcheno: moi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: тавдугаар сар
 * Montagnais: nissi-pishimᵘ
 * Navajo: Tʼą́ą́tsoh
 * Neapolitan: maio, majo
 * North Frisian:
 * Föhr-Amrum: mei
 * Mooring: krölemoune, moi
 * Northern Sami: miessemánnu
 * Northern Sotho: Mopitlo
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ମ‌ଇ
 * Ojibwe: zaagibagaa-giizis
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: трѣвьнъ
 * Old English: þrimilce
 * Oromo: Ebla
 * Ossetian: май
 * Pennsylvania German: Moi
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Mei
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮਈ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: mai, maitg, matg, meg
 * Russian:
 * Samoan:
 * Sardinian: magiu, maju, mazu
 * Saterland Frisian: Moai
 * Scots: Mey
 * Scottish Gaelic: Cèitean,
 * Sekani: ʼUtʼǫ̀ʼ kùnuyehde
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мај
 * Roman: ,
 * Shona: Chivabvu
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Skolt Sami: vueʹssmään
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swazi: íNkhwekhwéti
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tahitian: mē
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཟླ་ལྔ་བ།
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Tongan: Mē
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Udmurt: куартолэзь
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مئ
 * Uyghur: ماي, بەشىنچى ئاي
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: lehekuu
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ,
 * Winnebago: Mąą hitawus hii wiira
 * Wolof: Mee
 * Yakut: Ыам ыйа
 * Yiddish:
 * Yup'ik: Qusiirvik
 * Zazaki: Gulane
 * Zuni: Sow-a:ne, Yachun Kwa'shi'amme


 * Greek: λευκάκανθα


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew:, מַאיָה
 * Hungarian:
 * Latvian: Maija
 * Macedonian: Маја
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 2
The surname is converged from several origins:
 * As an English surname, from, a pet form of (see ).
 * As an English,, , , and Jewish surname, from the name of the month.
 * Also as an English surname, occasionally a pet form of or.
 * Also as an English surname, from the obsolete noun, from.
 * Also as an English surname, from obsolete, a borrowing from , from . See.
 * As an surname, Anglicized from, a name derived from.
 * As a surname, shortened from,.
 * Also as a French surname, from a derivative of 🇨🇬, similar to.
 * As a Jewish surname, from the town in Germany.
 * As a surname, from  (see ) and ) (see ).
 * As an Amerindian (Mexico) surname of origin, from, originally "young deer."

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , a Roman earth goddess, possibly from , from base.

Proper noun

 * 1) May

Noun

 * 1)  (month)

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