Mable
Mable is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 73 births. Its best rank was 112th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 730.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19221,620 births
- Best rank
- #112in 1905
- Since 1880
- 53,178people given the name
The story in the numbers
53,178 girls have been named Mable in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 1,620 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 73 births in 2024, against 1,620 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mable | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,544 | |
| 1890s | 3,184 | |
| 1900s | 5,148 | |
| 1910s | 11,718 | |
| 1920s | 14,011 | |
| 1930s | 7,751 | |
| 1940s | 4,921 | |
| 1950s | 2,659 | |
| 1960s | 950 | |
| 1970s | 308 | |
| 1980s | 185 | |
| 1990s | 106 | |
| 2000s | 157 | |
| 2010s | 261 | |
| 2020s | 275 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Mable was the 152nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Mable
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elmapeak 1918
- Eulapeak 1919
- Inezpeak 1920
- Elviepeak 1917
- Claudiepeak 1918
- Elvapeak 1918
- Aldapeak 1918
- Bulahpeak 1919
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.