Mabell
Feminine · “A spelling of Mabel”
Mabell is Mabel with a doubled l, a spelling from the turn of the twentieth century. The Mabels of that age were remarkable: a silent comedian who directed her own films and the deaf wife of the inventor of the telephone.
How old is the name Mabell?
Mabell first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Mabell alive today was born around 1913, making them about 112 years old. Fewer than a hundred people named Mabell are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
When was the name Mabell most popular?
Mabell peaked in 1899, reaching #791 nationally. See the whole 1899 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amabilis to Mabell
The story of Mabell
Mabel Normand was the first great woman star of silent comedy at Mack Sennett's Keystone studio, directing some of her own films and working opposite Charlie Chaplin in his earliest shorts. Mabel Hubbard, deaf from scarlet fever at five, was a pupil of Alexander Graham Bell, and they married in 1877; much of his work on sound and speech grew out of his teaching of the deaf, and she helped fund and guide his later experiments. Mabell, with its doubled l, was one of the spellings of Mabel used at the turn of the century.
Meaning
A spelling of Mabel, 'lovable'
Mabel is a medieval shortening of Amabel, from Latin amabilis, 'lovable'.
How the name formed
- amabilis
- Amabel
- Mabel
- Mabell
Related forms: Mabel · Amabel · Amabilis
Pronouncing Mabell
MAY-bul
Two syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Mabell
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1881
- Most girls named
- 191630 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #791reached in 1899
- Change vs 1939
- 0.0%5 in 1981, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mabell in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mabel in English — spelling variant
- Amabel in English — related form
- Amabilis in Latin — related form
Mabells among us
Fewer than a hundred people named Mabell are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Mabell sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Sounds like Mabel, a name with a warm meaning.
- Carries remarkable bearers.
- Almost certain to be the only one in this spelling.
- Almost everyone will write Mabel.
- It reads as an early-twentieth-century name.
- The doubled l may look like a slip.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mabells are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. Fewer than a hundred people named Mabell are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
- How popular is the name Mabell in 2025?
- Mabell is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Mabell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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