Mabel
For 2025 the count puts Mabel at #201 nationwide, and rising year over year. Its high-water mark came in 1915, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
What Mabel carries
Mabel · Latin
“beloved”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Mabel’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Mabel, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Mabel since 1880
Mabel peaked in 1915 at #62; #201 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Mabel is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Mabel runs strongest in Maine at 0.51% in 2025, then Vermont and Alaska.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Mabel
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Rose
#114 in 2025 · Latin
Vivian
#72 in 2025 · Latin
Clara
#63 in 2025 · Latin
Victor
#211 in 2025 · Latin
Alan
#191 in 2025 · Latin
Max
#180 in 2025 · Latin
Gracie
#227 in 2025 · Latin
Felix
#175 in 2025 · Latin
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About Mabel
Where does Mabel rank right now?
For 2025 the count puts Mabel at #201 nationwide, and rising year over year. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Mabel mean?
The gloss on record reads “beloved”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Mabel?
Rose, Vivian and Clara sit nearest to Mabel on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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