Marybelle
Marybelle was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,553 among girls’ names; 1,829 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marybelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marybelle?
#11,553 among girls’ names, 2025
Marybelle rose from #12,587 in 2015 to #11,553 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.0 per million.
74 babies in 1923, the peak
Marybelle peaked in 1923, when 74 girls were given it, #857 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,553 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,634 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,864 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,148 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,312 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,317 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,044 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,001 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,991 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,458 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,587 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,340 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,918 | 10.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,905 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,674 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,833 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,476 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,055 | 4.7 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,791 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,674 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,958 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,874 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,903 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,726 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,496 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,709 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,255 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,381 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,388 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,656 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,121 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,091 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,356 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,147 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,780 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,724 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,613 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,128 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,502 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,329 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,201 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,977 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,308 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,197 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,322 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,278 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,009 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,572 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,361 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,355 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,800 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,844 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,068 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 17 | #2,011 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,930 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,584 | 21.7 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,566 | 22.6 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,779 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,472 | 24.8 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,680 | 20.1 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,282 | 31.7 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,311 | 30.0 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,142 | 37.6 |
| 1930 | 48 | #1,068 | 42.6 |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,130 | 38.5 |
| 1928 | 51 | #1,057 | 44.2 |
| 1927 | 55 | #1,040 | 46.1 |
| 1926 | 60 | #967 | 50.6 |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,155 | 37.0 |
| 1924 | 61 | #983 | 48.8 |
| 1923 | 74 | #857 | 61.3 |
| 1922 | 64 | #925 | 53.3 |
| 1921 | 70 | #889 | 56.8 |
| 1920 | 66 | #901 | 55.1 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,071 | 41.6 |
| 1918 | 51 | #1,012 | 44.1 |
| 1917 | 53 | #961 | 49.0 |
| 1916 | 49 | #989 | 46.9 |
| 1915 | 47 | #975 | 47.8 |
| 1914 | 40 | #937 | 52.5 |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,035 | 44.8 |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,135 | 39.4 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,097 | 40.6 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,399 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,437 | 28.8 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,786 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,348 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,127 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,494 | 27.4 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,276 | 34.4 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,598 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,114 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 13 | #925 | 55.8 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,233 | 34.8 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,344 | 29.9 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,531 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,436 | 26.9 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,062 | 42.4 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,236 | 33.6 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,218 | 34.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marybelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marybelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marybelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marybelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 459 Americans named Marybelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 12 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 815 people named Marybelle (811 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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).
Where are babies named Marybelle born?
The states with the most babies named Marybelle are Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 118 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 78 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 72 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kansas | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Marybelle 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,148 babies since 1880, Marybelle is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 256 babies (3.1%), the fifth 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 Marybelle
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 Marybelle and names like it
- Compare Marybelle and MarbellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMarybelle peaked in 1923.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marybelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Marybelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Marybelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.