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Maybelle

#2,849 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Mabel

Maybelle has been given to 6,366 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,849 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 212 recorded.

Babies named Maybelle, 2025

1 in 55,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maybelle: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Mabel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maybelle means

Maybelle is a variant of Mabel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Maybelle is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mabel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,366 girls were recorded with the name Maybelle between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 212 in 1918; its best national rank was #334 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,818 in 2020 to #2,849 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,201 in 2015 to #2,849 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maybelle?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,849
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maybelle 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maybelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maybelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maybelle was born before 1919 — so the typical Maybelle is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
840
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1910s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (1,553).

Is Maybelle 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
+1,593
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+969
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,352
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.3%
Peak was 1918 (212)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#334
1882

Spellings of Maybelle

Maybelle is the most-used spelling, taking 17.2% of the 36,919 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Maybelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Maybelle was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 81,282 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 14,286
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 50,000
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 50,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

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. Maybelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maybelle around the world

Where Maybelle 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
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2020
    #7,450
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Maybelle

People whose public names include Maybelle, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maybelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,849
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 969
Best rank ever
#334
1882
Peak year
1918
212 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,366
Count in 2025
60

Names similar to Maybelle

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

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Names with a curve like Maybelle

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

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Sibling names for Maybelle

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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