Marybelle

#11,553 in 2025Girls' name

Combination of Mary and Belle

Marybelle has been given to 1,829 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #11,553 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Marybelle, 2025

1 in 414,000

Marybelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marybelle: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Mary and Belle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marybelle means

Marybelle is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marybelle is used in English.

The naming story behind Marybelle

The reference identifies Marybelle as a combination of Mary and Belle. This is a documented two-name formation.

The histories of Mary and Belle belong to their separate source entries. The source does not identify every bearer’s family motivation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mary and Belle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,829 girls were recorded with the name Marybelle between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1923; its best national rank was #857 in 1923.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,317 in 2020 to #11,553 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,587 in 2015 to #11,553 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Marybelle?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,553; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marybelle 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marybelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marybelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marybelle was born before 1926 — so the typical Marybelle is around 99 today.

Median birth year: 1926; About 99 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 9.4%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 336; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (589).

Is Marybelle 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: +3,081; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −2,236; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,034; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 10.8%; Peak was 1923 (74)
Years since peak: 102; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #857; 1923

Spellings of Marybelle

Marybelle is not the most common spelling — Maryellen is, with 25.2% against Marybelle's 3.5%.

Maryellen25.2%13,144
Maybelle12.2%6,366
Marcelle10.4%5,414
Marielle8.7%4,530
Mabelle5.0%2,608
Marbella4.7%2,467
Arabelle4.3%2,272
Maybell4.2%2,207

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.

Where Marybelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Marybelle was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 175,913 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Indiana1 in 50,000
2Ohio1 in 100,000
3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
4California1 in —
5Iowa1 in —
6Illinois1 in —
7Kansas1 in —
8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marybelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marybelle around the world

Where Marybelle 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.

South Australia
1950–2001
#711
in 2001

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marybelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,553
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 2,236
Best rank ever: #857; 1923
Peak year: 1923; 74 that year
First recorded: 1886
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,829
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Marybelle

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

Sibling names for Marybelle

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

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For a brother

Eldridge Delmer Trinidad Dewitt Frances Buford Lenard Bertram

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