Maebelle
Maebelle was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,729 among girls’ names; 1,218 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maebelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maebelle?
#7,729 among girls’ names, 2025
Maebelle rose from #7,846 in 2015 to #7,729 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 8.7 per million.
42 babies in 1917, the peak
Maebelle peaked in 1917, when 42 girls were given it, #1,106 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,729 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,818 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,123 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,127 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,774 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,720 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,491 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,954 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,697 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,241 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,846 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,774 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,716 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,509 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,766 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,202 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,680 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,932 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,177 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,503 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,455 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,598 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,558 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,333 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,566 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,511 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,124 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,964 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,396 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,688 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,854 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,760 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,109 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,060 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,588 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,943 | 16.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,965 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,924 | 16.9 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,729 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,799 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,059 | 15.6 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,247 | 33.5 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,966 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,459 | 26.3 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,427 | 27.2 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,203 | 34.8 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,330 | 30.0 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,324 | 29.2 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,300 | 30.0 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,438 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,290 | 30.2 |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,106 | 38.8 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,291 | 30.6 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,464 | 25.4 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,324 | 30.2 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,207 | 35.2 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,685 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,060 | 43.0 |
| 1910 | 21 | #958 | 53.0 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,260 | 34.6 |
| 1908 | 19 | #930 | 56.8 |
| 1907 | 16 | #973 | 50.2 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,027 | 47.4 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,221 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,218 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,272 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,055 | 45.4 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,290 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,039 | 46.7 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,153 | 38.6 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,339 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,735 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,174 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,301 | 31.4 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,576 | 23.5 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,103 | 41.1 |
| 1885 | 7 | #888 | 52.6 |
| 1884 | 8 | #828 | 62.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maebelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maebelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maebelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maebelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 289 Americans named Maebelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 320 people named Maebelle (319 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,192 babies since 1880, Maebelle is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 86 babies (16%), the second 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 Maebelle
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 Maebelle and names like it
- Compare Maebelle and MaybelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMaebelle peaked in 1917.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maebelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Maebelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maebelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.