Marybel
Marybel was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 683 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marybel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marybel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,281, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1981, the peak
Marybel peaked in 1981, when 27 girls were given it, #3,205 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,281 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,918 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,270 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,755 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,350 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,419 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,203 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,688 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,995 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,762 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #14,685 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,343 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,790 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,951 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,579 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,340 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,867 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,545 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,847 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,215 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,362 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,333 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,781 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,978 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,804 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,466 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,936 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,645 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,405 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,969 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,205 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,242 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,346 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,182 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,001 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,765 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,712 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,154 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,416 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,223 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,921 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,521 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,095 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,466 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,430 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,720 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,127 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,024 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,951 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,539 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,771 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,513 | 3.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,767 | 4.9 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,621 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,483 | 4.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,993 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marybel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marybel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marybel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marybel, and how old are they?
An estimated 628 Americans named Marybel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 35 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 865 people named Marybel (863 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% 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).
Where are babies named Marybel born?
The states with the most babies named Marybel are California, New York and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 156 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New York | 42 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Marybel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marybel is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 2.0 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 Marybel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Marybel?
Marybel is a less common spelling of Maribel: SSA has recorded 683 Marybel and 25,055 Maribel since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 26,856 babies since 1880, Marybel is the second most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 125 babies recorded by SSA was a Marybel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Marybel
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 Marybel and names like it
- Compare Marybel and MaribelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarybel peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marybel since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Marybel.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marybel alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.