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Maybell

Girls' name

Variant of Mabel

Maybell has been given to 2,207 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1919, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Maybell, 2024

1 in 557,000

Maybell over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maybell: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Mabel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maybell means

Maybell is a variant of Mabel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maybell is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maybell → Mabel. The family’s meaning is “lovable”, recorded in English with the source elements amābilis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mabel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,207 girls were recorded with the name Maybell between 1882 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1919; its best national rank was #491 in 1895.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maybell?

Maybell 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 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maybell 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maybell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maybells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maybell was born before 1918 — so the typical Maybell is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
163
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1910s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (552).

Is Maybell 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (73)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#491
1895

Spellings of Maybell

Maybell is not the most common spelling — Mabel is, with 81.9% against Maybell's 1.3%.

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 Maybell is used

Across 1910–2025, Maybell was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 104,215 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 12,500
  2. 2Georgia1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in —
  7. 7Louisiana1 in —
  8. 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. Maybell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maybell 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
#491
1895
Peak year
1919
73 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,207
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maybell

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

MaydellMayleneMaylaniMayleenMayceeMaylinMaycieMaylynnMaysonKendellMayrinMayzieMayleeMayeliMayzellChanellMayelaMayleighGissellMaylenMaylaRashellIzabellMaysen

Names with a curve like Maybell

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maybell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ExieEthylHildegardeLudieVerdieMadieAlbertineAudieClydeHilmaEdythOcie

Sibling names for Maybell

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

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