Maybelle
Maybelle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. Its best rank was 334th, in 1882, 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918212 births
- Best rank
- #334first in 1882
- Since 1880
- 6,306people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,306 girls have been named Maybelle in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 212 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 25%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maybelle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 304 | |
| 1890s | 591 | |
| 1900s | 843 | |
| 1910s | 1,553 | |
| 1920s | 1,289 | |
| 1930s | 618 | |
| 1940s | 328 | |
| 1950s | 128 | |
| 1960s | 64 | |
| 1970s | 19 | |
| 1980s | 21 | |
| 1990s | 14 | |
| 2000s | 58 | |
| 2010s | 251 | |
| 2020s | 225 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Maybelle was the 460th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Maybelle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Madgepeak 1920
- Agnespeak 1918
- Vestapeak 1918
- Omapeak 1916
- Gussiepeak 1918
- Alphapeak 1916
- Verniepeak 1916
- Ociepeak 1916
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.