Mabel

Where Mabel comes from

Clipping of Amabel, from Latin amābilis (“lovable”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Mabel
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #22 among girls — 808 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1891
    Peak, #15
    2,029 babies named Mabel — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1892
    Mabel Normand born
    American actress
  4. 1996
    Mabel born
    Swedish-British singer
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #201 after sinking to #2,874 in 1997.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Mabel Normand · American actress, 1892–1930
  • Mabel · Swedish-British singer, born 1996
  • Mabel Strickland · Anglo-Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician, 1899–1988
  • Mabel Gay · Cuban triple jumper, born 1983
  • Mabel Cahill · Irish tennis player, 1863–1905

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.