Mabel

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

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◐

Mabel is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name513K records spelled Mabel28 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Maebel, Mäbel, Mábel, Mabél, Mäbël

• a separate given name13K records spelled Mabel4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Bolivia

  Also written Màbel, Mabél, Mábel

• English given name3.8K records spelled Mabel46 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Laos, Canada

  Languages: English, Spanish, Lao

  Also written Mable, Mabell, Maben, เมเบิล, มาเบล

• Greek given name729 records spelled Mabel2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, South Africa, Spain

  Also written Mábel

• Korean given name714 records spelled Mabel2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Paraguay, United Kingdom

  Also written 마벨

60 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●

Mabel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Originally a nickname from the Old French vocabulary word amabel, amable ‘lovely’ (akin to modern English amiable ‘friendly’, ‘good-humoured’). The initial vowel began to be lost as early as the 12th century (the same woman is referred to as both Mabilia and

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Swedish, Mabel antas ursprungligen vara en engelsk smekform till Amabel, bildat till latinets amabilis ’älskansvärd’. I spanskan är det en form av Maria Isabel.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Spanish, Inglés; aféresis de Amabel, variante de Amable.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In English, Old French; amiable, lovable.

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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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mabel Gardiner Hubbardb. 1857USAmerican businesswoman
• Florence Hardingb. 1860USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923
• Mabel Normandb. 1892USAmerican actress (1893–1930)
• Clara Thompsonb. 1893USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1893-1958)
• Mabel Albertsonb. 1901USAmerican actress (1901-1982)
• Mabel Kingb. 1932USAmerican actress (1932-1999)
• Mabel Cheungb. 1950CNHong Kong film director and screenwriter
• Mabel Wisse Smitb. 1968NLDutch princess; widow of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
• Larissa Riquelmeb. 1984PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan model and actress
• Mabelb. 1996SESwedish-British singer

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 · 1,043 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mabel?

We estimate roughly 33 thousand people bear Mabel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Mabel have the most bearers?

Mabel is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled mabel.

How common is Mabel compared with other names?

In Argentina, Mabel is the 78th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Mabel a male or female name?

Mabel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Mabel mean?

Recorded meaning: English form of Latin Amabel, probably ‘lovable’; used to anglicise Maeve.