Maybel
Maybel was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,625 among girls’ names; 380 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maybel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maybel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maybel is “a female given name from Latin.”
A nonstandard spelling of Mabel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maybel?
#4,625 among girls’ names, 2025
Maybel rose from #7,486 in 2015 to #4,625 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 18.7 per million.
31 babies in 2023, the peak
Maybel peaked in 2023, when 31 girls were given it, #4,524 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,625 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,389 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,524 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,903 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,318 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,760 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,523 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,996 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,993 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,256 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,486 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,790 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,017 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,579 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,053 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,768 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,176 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,966 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,005 | 2.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,347 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,572 | 7.2 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,569 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,580 | 7.3 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,103 | 6.2 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,590 | 7.4 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,528 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,279 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,881 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,422 | 14.4 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,131 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,792 | 21.8 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,859 | 20.9 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,461 | 27.1 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,631 | 22.4 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,398 | 28.3 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,297 | 31.5 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,414 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maybel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maybel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maybel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maybel, and how old are they?
An estimated 264 Americans named Maybel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 507 people named Maybel (507 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Maybel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 146,975 babies since 1880, Maybel is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 1,565 babies (1.9%), the second 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.
More about Maybel and names like it
- Compare Maybel and MabelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaybel peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maybel since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Maybel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Maybel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maybel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.