Marybell
Marybell was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 549 Americans have been recorded with it between 1899 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marybell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marybell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,195, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1919, the peak
Marybell peaked in 1919, when 20 girls were given it, #1,900 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,195 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,462 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,240 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,757 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,030 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,375 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,776 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,133 | 5.1 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,173 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,018 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #11,495 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,058 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,928 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,676 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,708 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,705 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,817 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,617 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,501 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,887 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,609 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,436 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,977 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,601 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,665 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,897 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,139 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,519 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,234 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,667 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,539 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,571 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,708 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,772 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,686 | 2.5 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,697 | 4.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,635 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,858 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,742 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,145 | 8.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,036 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,356 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,504 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,131 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,348 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,285 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,548 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,562 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,894 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,832 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,900 | 17.7 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,161 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,961 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,174 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,643 | 11.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,994 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,710 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,274 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,315 | 15.1 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,526 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marybell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marybell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marybell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marybell, and how old are they?
An estimated 302 Americans named Marybell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 43 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 666 people named Marybell (664 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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).
How common is the spelling Marybell?
Marybell is a less common spelling of Maribel: SSA has recorded 549 Marybell and 25,055 Maribel since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 26,856 babies since 1880, Marybell is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 125 babies recorded by SSA was a Marybell (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.
More about Marybell and names like it
- Compare Marybell and MaribelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMarybell peaked in 1919.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marybell since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Marybell.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marybell alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.