Mabelle
Mabelle was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,658 among girls’ names; 2,608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mabelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mabelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mabelle is “a female given name from Latin, variant of Mabel.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mabelle?
#8,658 among girls’ names, 2025
Mabelle fell from #7,842 in 2015 to #8,658 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 7.5 per million.
83 babies in 1893, the peak
Mabelle peaked in 1893, when 83 girls were given it, #297 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,658 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,743 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,316 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,830 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,978 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,588 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,591 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,271 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,424 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,552 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,842 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,984 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,856 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,904 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,201 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,112 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,313 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,389 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,928 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,715 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,342 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,862 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,274 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,260 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,127 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,685 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,625 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,892 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,496 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,663 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 38 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,509 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 52 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 63 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 69 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 45 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 45 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 23 | #916 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 43 | #652 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 25 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 47 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 58 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1906 | 36 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 43 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 35 | #574 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 56 | #427 | 0.21 |
| 1902 | 44 | #470 | 0.17 |
| 1901 | 42 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1900 | 55 | #456 | 0.18 |
| 1899 | 43 | #446 | 0.18 |
| 1898 | 70 | #372 | 0.27 |
| 1897 | 48 | #423 | 0.20 |
| 1896 | 42 | #449 | 0.18 |
| 1895 | 54 | #383 | 0.23 |
| 1894 | 55 | #379 | 0.25 |
| 1893 | 83 | #297 | 0.39 |
| 1892 | 82 | #301 | 0.39 |
| 1891 | 69 | #301 | 0.37 |
| 1890 | 58 | #335 | 0.30 |
| 1889 | 67 | #296 | 0.38 |
| 1888 | 61 | #306 | 0.34 |
| 1887 | 57 | #283 | 0.39 |
| 1886 | 59 | #273 | 0.41 |
| 1885 | 70 | #240 | 0.53 |
| 1884 | 54 | #266 | 0.42 |
| 1883 | 56 | #239 | 0.50 |
| 1882 | 40 | #281 | 0.37 |
| 1881 | 29 | #295 | 0.32 |
| 1880 | 39 | #250 | 0.43 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mabelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mabelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mabelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mabelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 224 Americans named Mabelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (9% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 404 people named Mabelle (404 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 63,658 babies since 1880, Mabelle is the third most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 159 babies (7.5%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mabelle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mabelle and names like it
- Compare Mabelle and MableBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sMabelle peaked in 1893.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mabelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1893The year the most babies were named Mabelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mabelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.