Meaning and history
Mabel is a medieval form of Amabilis. Mabel and Amabel were common in the Middle Ages but rare after the 15th century, then revived in the 19th, perhaps helped by characters bearing both forms in C. M. Yonge's popular novel The Heir of Redclyffe (1853).
20062006: 116 births, rank #1,788
2007: 127 births, rank #1,713
2008: 139 births, rank #1,631
2009: 147 births, rank #1,538
2010: 177 births, rank #1,328
20112011: 196 births, rank #1,224
2012: 241 births, rank #1,044
2013: 393 births, rank #711
2014: 427 births, rank #668
2015: 529 births, rank #578
20162016: 605 births, rank #515
2017: 703 births, rank #451
2018: 727 births, rank #439
2019: 712 births, rank #440
2020: 718 births, rank #428
20212021: 831 births, rank #375
2022: 1,027 births, rank #310
2023: 1,131 births, rank #278
2024: 1,385 births, rank #222
20252025: 1,522 births, rank #201
Mabel rose from #222 to #201 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1915, with 3,683 births.