Amabel

Girls' name

Lovable

Amabel has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2019, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Amabel, 2024

1 in 669,000

Amabel over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amabel: meaning, origin, and history

Lovable

Latin

What Amabel means

Amabel means “lovable”, associated with amabilis.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Medieval English name apparently based on Latin amabilis (“lovable”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Amabel (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Amabel is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Amabel comes through Latin amabilis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 170 girls were recorded with the name Amabel between 1975 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,906 in 1977.

How common is Amabel?

Amabel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amabel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amabel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amabels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amabel was born before 2012 — so the typical Amabel is around 13 today.

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 72.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 170; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Amabel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2019 (12)
Years since peak: 6; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 48.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,906; 1977

Spellings of Amabel

Amabel is not the most common spelling — Amber is, with 54.5% against Amabel's 0.02%.

Amber54.5%374,690
Mabel20.7%142,284
Isabel19.2%132,150
Annabel2.2%14,974
Anabel1.4%9,780
Amal0.60%4,141
Izabel0.55%3,814
Ysabel0.22%1,498

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Amabel around the world

Where Amabel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2025
#4,867
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Amabel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,906; 1977
Peak year: 2019; 12 that year
First recorded: 1975
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 170
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Amabel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Amariz Amanii Amanat Amalee Amarya Amadea Amazin Amazyn Amarys Amaura Amaani Amanah Amayla Amahia Amarri Amarrah Amalya Amaliya Amary Amany Amaal Amarra Amadi Amayra

Sibling names for Amabel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Keren Leena Nala Kairi Emani Kamilah Elliot Royalty

For a brother

Joziah Ishaan Khalid Torin Kamryn Leighton Simeon Turner

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