Mable

Where Mable comes from

Variant of Mabel.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mable
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #156 among girls — 83 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #112
    562 babies named Mable — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1930
    Mable John born
    American blues singer
  4. 1953
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #527.
  5. 1969
    Mable Elmore born
    politician
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Mabel.
Namesakes
  • Mable John · American blues singer, 1930–2022
  • Mable Elmore · politician, born 1969
  • Mable Chan · Hong Kong politician, born 1966

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.