Mable
About 53,466 American babies have been named Mable since 1880, most of them around 1922. Its origin is given as Latin. In 2025 it ranked 2,438th. About 9,200 Mables are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 77.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mable boys named Mable
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 53,466
- Estimated living today
- 9,200
- Median age today
- 77
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 152nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,438th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 53,251 / 215
How old the living Mables are
born that year still alive today
Of the 53,466 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,200 are alive — 17 in every hundred. Roughly 640 of them are children and 7,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1948 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Variant of Mabel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Mable is most common
Across the country Mable is recorded 12.1 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Mables are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular girls’ names the year Mable peaked:
Mable elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Mable | 94 | 1,809th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Mable against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.