Maribel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maribel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 62nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name María Isabel.
- PEPeru≈1 in 642(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 890
- VEVenezuela1 in 968
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)
- #929 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 406 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 539 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, 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)
a diminutive of the female given name María Isabel
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maribel 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 | #195 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 890 | listed | Maribel | 110 |
| US United States | — | 51,831 | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Maribel | 406 |
| PE Peru | #68 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 642 | — | Maribel | 82 |
| VE Venezuela | #120 | 29,597 | 1 in 968 | 30K | Maribel | 64 |
| BO Bolivia | #670 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | — | Maribel | 42 |
| EC Ecuador | #62 | 7,531 | 1 in 2.2K | 7.5K | Maribel | 56 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 4,376 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.4K | — | 50 |
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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Maribel is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Contracted short form of Maria Isabel.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, weibl. Vom. spanischer Herkunft,
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Spanish: contracted short form of Maria Isabel (see also MABEL ). The name is also occasionally used in the English-speaking world, where it may represent a simplified form of MARIBELLA .
as a word
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the female given name Maria Isabel, from Spanish
as a wordkaikki.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(measured from records)
- Maribel Vinsonb. 1911USfigure skater (1911-1961)
- Maribel Arrietab. 1934SVBeauty contestant, artist
- Maribel Owenb. 1940USfigure skater (1940-1961)
- Maribel Martínb. 1954ESSpanish actress
- Maribel Guardiab. 1959CRCosta Rican actress
- Maribel Ripollb. 1959ESSpanish actress
- Maribel Casanyb. 1963ESSpanish journalist and television presenter
- Belle Pérezb. 1976BEnot in their usual nameBelgian musician and songwriter
- Maribel Domínguezb. 1978MXMexican association football player
- Maribel del Pinob. 1981ESactress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 71 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 52K | #872 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 30K | #38 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 7.5K | #261 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4.4K | #176 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 125 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 94 | #872 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 6 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Maribel mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name María Isabel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Maribel a male or female name?
- Maribel 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 Maribel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 123 thousand people named Maribel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maribel.
- How common is the name Maribel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,831 people named Maribel in 2020, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Maribel compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Maribel is the 195th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maribelThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Maribel” — the 195th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.