Mabel
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: English form of Latin Amabel, probably ‘lovable’; used to anglicise Maeve
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maβel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mabel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 22nd most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 666(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 931
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #783 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 666 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English form of Latin Amabel, probably ‘lovable’; used to anglicise Maeve.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mabel is read(measured from records)
Mabel is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish75%
- English19%
English form of Latin Amabel, probably ‘lovable’; used to anglicise Maeve.
as a nameIrish first names
Old French; amiable, lovable.
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mabel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Mabel | 25 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Mabel | 37 |
| AR Argentina | #59 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 666 | 69 | Mabel | 109 |
| US United States | — | 23,468 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Mabel | 334 |
| CO Colombia | #338 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 9 | Mabel | 113 |
| CL Chile | #265 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 7 | Mabel | 88 |
| PY Paraguay | #22 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Mabel | 41 |
| UY Uruguay | #34 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 931 | — | Mabel | 39 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mabel 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.
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
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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.
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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 92 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,445 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.5K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 69 | #913 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 63 | #1,445 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 9 | #112 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1940 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mabel mean, and where does it come from?
- English form of Latin Amabel, probably ‘lovable’; used to anglicise Maeve. Recorded by Irish first names.
- 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.
- In which country does Mabel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 167 thousand people named Mabel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mabel.
- How common is the name Mabel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,468 people named Mabel in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Mabel compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Mabel is the 22nd most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Mabel?
- In the etymology graph, Anabel, Annabelle and Mable are forms of the same name in other languages; Maybelline is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Anabella and Arabella.
- How do you pronounce Mabel?
- A machine transcription gives /maβel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mabelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mabel” — the 22nd most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.