Mabel
Mabel is ranked 222nd among girls in 2024 (1,380 births). Its best rank was 15th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- #222up 56 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,3800.09% of girls
- Peak year
- 19153,683 births
- Best rank
- #15in 1891
- Since 1880
- 140,754people given the name
The story in the numbers
140,754 girls have been named Mabel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 3,683 births — 0.37% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 669 → 222).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1915, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 97 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 43 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mabel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 13,096 | |
| 1890s | 21,991 | |
| 1900s | 21,625 | |
| 1910s | 30,783 | |
| 1920s | 24,522 | |
| 1930s | 8,798 | |
| 1940s | 4,020 | |
| 1950s | 1,836 | |
| 1960s | 1,053 | |
| 1970s | 690 | |
| 1980s | 779 | |
| 1990s | 694 | |
| 2000s | 1,073 | |
| 2010s | 4,710 | |
| 2020s | 5,084 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Mabel was the 62nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Mabel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bessiepeak 1916
- Cordiepeak 1919
- Mamiepeak 1919
- Oniepeak 1918
- Zulapeak 1922
- Hilmapeak 1915
- Tilliepeak 1915
- Cordiapeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.