Mabe

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Maebe in BE Belgium.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mabe is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5.5K records spelled Mabe4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Mabé, Mabê

• a separate surname2.7K records spelled Mabe2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Benin, South Africa

  Also written Mabé

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mabe is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Dutch, unexplained. Mabee(471) 1 . Variant spelling of Mabey.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Spanish, Iriartella setigera, a South American palm tree.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In nfl, to chew (in order to soften, especially betel)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

• Manabu Mabeb. 1924BRJapanese painter (1924-1997)
• Jacob Emmanuel Mabeb. 1959CMPolitical scientist; Philosopher, University Professor
• Ricky Mabeb. 1983CACanadian actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mabe?

We estimate roughly 7.6 thousand people bear Mabe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Mabe have the most bearers?

We estimate about 6.9 thousand people bear Mabe in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mabe.

How common is Mabe compared with other names?

In Benin, Mabe is the 3rd most common surname of 4,497 surnames recorded there.

What does the name Mabe mean?

Recorded meaning: from the medieval female personal name Mabe, a short form of Mabelie, derived from a Latin personal name and saint’s name (A)mabilia.