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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Mabel

Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation

2025 rank

#201

up +21 places

2025 births

1,522

up +137 births

All-time births

142,284

1% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1915
3,683 births
Best rank
#15
in 1891
First recorded
1880
#22 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1922
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19153,683#62Peak
  2. 19163,680#65
  3. 19183,636#74
  4. 19173,499#68
  5. 19193,405#78

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #15 in 1891 · peak births 3,683 in 1915

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

409 boys · 142,284 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Mabel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.