Amabel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amabel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amabel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Medieval English name apparently based on Latin amabilis (“lovable”).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 948K
- UYUruguay1 in 43K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Medieval English name apparently based on Latin amabilis (“lovable”).
Sources 2
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amabel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Amabel | 38 |
| US United States | — | 351 | 1 in 948K | 351 | Amabel | 125 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 791K | — | Amabel | 13 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Amabel | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 160 | 1 in 1.3M | 160 | Amabel | 35 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Amabel | 20 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Amabel | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | #917 | 78 | 1 in 43K | 78 | Amabel | 8 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Amabel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: of Old French origin, from Latin am bilis lovable. This name is now very rare in the English-speaking world, but lies behind the much commoner ANNABEL and MABEL . It gained some currency from being borne by the character Amabel Rose Adams in Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire Chronicles (1933 onwards).
as a word
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)
- Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Greyb. 1751GBBritish diarist and political writer (1751-1833)
- Amabel Anderson Arnoldb. 1883USAmerican lawyer and law professor
- Amabel Williams-Ellisb. 1894GBEnglish writer and critic
- Clare FitzRoy, Countess of Eustonb. 1951GBnot in their usual nameBritish official (born 1951)
- Lady Amabel Montagu Douglas Scottb. 1992GBborn 1992; youngest child of Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, and Lady Elizabeth Kerr
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 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 351 | #26,490 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 160 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 140 | #29,753 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 134 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 129 | #18,810 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 104 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 89 | #38,291 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 78 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 71 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 64 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 40 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 30 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Amabel mean, and where does it come from?
- Medieval English name apparently based on Latin amabilis (“lovable”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Amabel?
- A machine transcription gives /amabel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Amabel?
- In the etymology graph, Anabel, Annabelle and Anabella are forms of the same name in other languages; Mae, Mabel and Mable are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Amabel a male or female name?
- Amabel 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 Amabel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Amabel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amabel.
- Where is Amabel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amabel is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Amabel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 351 people named Amabel in 2020, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.
- How common is Amabel compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Amabel is the 917th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amabel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amabelThe 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, “Amabel” — the 917th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.