Maribel
Maribel was given to 125 girls in 2025, #1,662 among girls’ names; 25,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,700 Americans named Maribel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maribel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maribel mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Maribel is “a diminutive of the female given name María Isabel”
Blend of María + Isabel, from María Isabel.
/maɾiˈbel/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maribel?
#1,662 among girls’ names, 2025
Maribel fell from #1,413 in 2015 to #1,662 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 91.9 to 77.8 per million.
778 babies in 1980, the peak
Maribel peaked in 1980, when 778 babies were given it (769 girls, #315 among girls’ names). The 125 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | #1,662 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,712 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 142 | #1,516 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 168 | #1,376 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,041 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,628 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 94 | #2,042 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,825 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 130 | #1,663 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,477 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 164 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 155 | #1,457 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 174 | #1,342 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 184 | #1,294 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 215 | #1,141 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 206 | #1,184 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 282 | #947 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 291 | #936 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 304 | #905 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 341 | #805 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 474 | #599 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 341 | #765 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 291 | #842 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 334 | #730 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 335 | #727 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 385 | #649 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 382 | #623 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 424 | #577 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 502 | #491 | 0.29 |
| 1996 | 477 | #502 | 0.27 |
| 1995 | 513 | #484 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 501 | #496 | 0.28 |
| 1993 | 526 | #478 | 0.29 |
| 1992 | 610 | #415 | 0.33 |
| 1991 | 601 | #425 | 0.32 |
| 1990 | 661 | #394 | 0.35 |
| 1989 | 572 | #432 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 481 | #471 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 491 | #450 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 485 | #445 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 460 | #463 | 0.27 |
| 1984 | 474 | #439 | 0.28 |
| 1983 | 510 | #424 | 0.31 |
| 1982 | 640 | #362 | 0.38 |
| 1981 | 662 | #355 | 0.40 |
| 1980 | 769 | #315 | 0.46 |
| 1979 | 538 | #402 | 0.34 |
| 1978 | 515 | #399 | 0.34 |
| 1977 | 512 | #405 | 0.33 |
| 1976 | 528 | #389 | 0.36 |
| 1975 | 546 | #380 | 0.37 |
| 1974 | 558 | #380 | 0.38 |
| 1973 | 523 | #390 | 0.36 |
| 1972 | 555 | #385 | 0.36 |
| 1971 | 576 | #390 | 0.35 |
| 1970 | 492 | #447 | 0.28 |
| 1969 | 425 | #468 | 0.25 |
| 1968 | 342 | #521 | 0.21 |
| 1967 | 282 | #563 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 205 | #681 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 230 | #646 | 0.13 |
| 1964 | 260 | #633 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 238 | #656 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 232 | #672 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 133 | #933 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 90 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 71 | #1,274 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,050 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,031 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,621 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,661 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,736 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,776 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,912 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,615 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,886 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,317 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,860 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,469 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,072 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,988 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,676 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,499 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,347 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,275 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,444 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,458 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,640 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,648 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,267 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,123 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maribel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maribel has been given almost only to girls: 185 boys in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maribel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maribel, and how old are they?
23,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 25,055 Americans ever recorded as Maribel. The median Maribel alive today is 38 years old; half are between 27 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 51,831 people named Maribel (51,737 women and girls, 94 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 32 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,010 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,750 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Maribel born?
The states with the most babies named Maribel are California, Texas and New York, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8,886 | #1,042 | 2.9× |
| Texas | 5,019 | #1,144 | 2.4× |
| New York | 2,447 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 1,704 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 779 | #1,397 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 772 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 630 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Washington | 332 | #1,005 | 0.7× |
| New Mexico | 189 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Colorado | 180 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Maribel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maribel is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maribel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 26,856 babies since 1880, Maribel is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 125 of their 125 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Maribel
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 Maribel and names like it
- Compare Maribel and MarybelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMaribel peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maribel since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Maribel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Maribel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maribel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.