How Many People Are Named Mable?

9,212

people named Mable are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 37,102 people in the US has this name

Based on 53,466 babies named Mable in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,589

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,436

See the top 100

Peak Year

1922

1,629 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: MAY-bəl
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of MABEL.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Mable in English. Counting Mable and these spellings together, about 30,729 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Mable (99.9%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Mable alive today is about 71 years old, and 83% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 66 and 85 in 2025.

Under 30 806
8.7%
30 to 59 745
8.1%
60 and over 7,662
83.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Mable first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1922, to 1,629 babies. In 2025, 73 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Mable has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #112, in 1905. In 2025 it ranked #2,450.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,450
Best rank#112 (1905)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#164 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Mable alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Mable were born in North Carolina than in any other state: about 860 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mable was given 3.1 times as often in Louisiana, 3 times in Mississippi and 3 times in North Carolina.

North Carolina 860
Mississippi 581
Alabama 517
Louisiana 486
Texas 473
Virginia 462
Georgia 436
South Carolina 417
Tennessee 390
Kentucky 324
Arkansas 319
Florida 240
Illinois 180
Missouri 154
Pennsylvania 147
Ohio 146
California 131
West Virginia 129
Michigan 125
Indiana 113
Maryland 105
New York 85
Oklahoma 81
New Mexico 33
Colorado 20
Iowa 16
New Jersey 13
Kansas 13
Minnesota 10
Utah 6
Nebraska 5
Arizona 4
Washington 4
North Dakota 2
Wisconsin 2
District of Columbia 2
Wyoming 2
South Dakota 1
Oregon 1

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