How rare is the name Mabel?

23,468 people in the United States have the first name Mabel, about 1 in 12,870. It ranks #1,445 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MABEL

#1,445

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
23,468
About
1 in 12,870
This common or more
74.8%
Who bears it

Of the 23,468 people named Mabel, 50.5% reported their origin as White, 27.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 12.2% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mabel peaked in 1915, when 3,696 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1915
Births that year
3,696
In 2025*
1,522 ▼59%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 142,693 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Mabel by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #29. The largest share of babies named Mabel, 50.1%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#3613,127
1890s#2922,046
1900s#4221,728
1910s#10630,890
1920s#19324,591
1930s#3758,837
1940s#6744,025
1950s#1,2281,836
1960s#1,7561,053
1970s#2,413690
1980s#2,541779
1990s#3,416694
2000s#3,1771,073
2010s#1,1964,710
2020s#6056,614
Before 190126.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2750.1%
Silent Generation 1928–4510.4%
Baby boom 1946–642.6%
Generation X 1965–800.8%
Millennials 1981–960.8%
Generation Z 1997–121.3%
2013 and later7.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mabel is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mabel has been most common in West Virginia (3.3×), North Dakota (2.9×), and Hawaii (2.4×), and least common in Arizona (0.36×).

81,559 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Mabel

#1,443 Evangeline · 23,505#1,444 Kali · 23,482#1,446 Holden · 23,449#1,447 Aisha · 23,439

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mabel, most common first.

#20,403 Maybel · 507#30,462 Mavel · 286#45,829 Mabell · 147

Also a last name

As a last name, Mabel ranks #107,521 of 156,621, with 176 people. See Mabel as a last name

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