Maribell — girls' name
569 babies named Maribell in U.S. Social Security records since 1916, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
27% of everyone ever named Maribell was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Maribell in 1971 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maribell
The Social Security Administration has registered 569 babies named Maribell between 1916 and 2022, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maribell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maribell performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Maribell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 77 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Maribell in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maribell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 569 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Maribell at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Maribell popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1916
- Peak year (1971)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
569 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1971 with 25 births in a single year.
Maribell by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 154 births that decade — 27% of Maribell's all-time total
Maribell decade highlights
- Peak decade 154 births
- Runner-up 96 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Maribell's strongest decade
154 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Maribell by state
Where Maribell concentrates geographically — total births since 1916
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 77 | 13.5% |
| #2 | New York | | 60 | 10.5% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 6 | 1.1% |
77 of 569 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 13.5% of nationwide
- New York 10.5% of nationwide
- New Jersey 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 13.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1916–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.