Mabelle

Where Mabelle comes from

The dictionaries list Mabelle as a given name — a female given name from Latin, variant of Mabel — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1874
    Mabelle Gilman Corey born
    American actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #250 among girls — 39 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Mabelle Kelso born
    First woman in the United States to hold a government license as a radio operator
  4. 1883
    Peak, #238
    56 babies named Mabelle — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1909
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #813.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Mabel.
Namesakes
  • Mabelle Gilman Corey · American actress, 1874–1960
  • Mabelle Kelso · First woman in the United States to hold a government license as a radio operator, 1883–1975
  • Mabelle Arole · Indian health activist, 1935–1999
  • Mabelle Biggart · American educator, dramatic reader, preacher, writer, born 1861

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.