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How popular is the name Mabel?
Births per year, rank history and how many Mabels are alive today.
Mabel (female) is currently the 16th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 1,527 babies given the name in 2025. The name peaked in 1904, when around 3,700 babies were given the name, the 24th most popular that year. Mabel's popularity is double-peaked: strongest by births in the early 1900s, having dropped out of the published rankings in between, with a second wave in the early 2020s that climbs even higher up the rankings. Numbers have been rising in recent years. At least 80,000 babies have been named Mabel in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Mabel you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Mabels born in England and Wales are between 7 and 76, and there are at least 26,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 7.9% chance that at least one of them will be called Mabel.
How many babies are named Mabel each year?
Where does Mabel rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Mabel most popular?
Mabel peaked in 1904, when around 3,700 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Mabel?
At least 26,000 people named Mabel born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Mabel?
Most living Mabels are between 7 and 76; the most common age is about 2.
Is Mabel becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.