Maebell

Where Maebell comes from

Maebell hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1891
    First appearance
    #1,093 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1912
    Peak, #978
    27 babies named Maebell — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,750.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

No widely known Maebell turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.