Mabel

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mabel: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mabel: Recorded since 1965, with a gap of 30 years, its highest recorded position is #37, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
61times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#37highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Mabel's record

England and Wales registered 1,113 births with the name in 2024, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count
Absent from every published list for 30 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#1365
1998	#995
1999	#1160
2000	#1250
2001	#1025
2002	#656
2003	#637
2004	#626
2005	#668
2006	#440
2007	#534
2008	#378
2009	#471
2010	#386
2011	#360
2012	#312
2013	#265
2014	#245
2015	#216
2016	#210
2017	#162
2018	#106
2019	#98
2020	#68
2021	#58
2022	#50
2023	#40
2024	#37

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 21 of the 61 years from 1965 to 2025.

In 2025: #94 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #94 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1965–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #385 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #37 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #94 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Mabel appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 8,077 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1965.

Mabel across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mabel's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#385 (1965)	#94 (2025)	#94 (2025)	21 of 61	261 (1965–2025)	52 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#1112 (1996)	#37 (2024)	#37 (2024)	29 of 29	8,077 (1996–2024)	1,113 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2014)	#93 (2024)	#93 (2024)	9 of 11	84 (2014–2024)	22 (2024)

Mabel by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mabel in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	68	4 of 10	17
2000s	580	10 of 10	58
2010s	2,648	10 of 10	265
2020sbusiest	4,781	5 of 10	956

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 956 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 237, from 531 to 768.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mabel appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #37 in England and Wales in 2024.

Mabel's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#37	1,113	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#40	1,051	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#50	964	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#58	885	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#68	768	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#98	531	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#106	491	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#162	345	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#210	250	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#216	243	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#245	205	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#265	179	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#312	155	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#360	132	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#386	117	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#471	87	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#378	118	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#534	69	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#440	91	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#668	46	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#626	48	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#637	45	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#656	41	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1025	20	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1160	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#995	21	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#94	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#93	22	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#142	14	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#175	11	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#206	9	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#158	12	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#94	52	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#149	31	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#202	22	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#195	24	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#322	13	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#264	16	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	15	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#361	12	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#289	16	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	8	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#494	8	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#549	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#385	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#83	50	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1965 and 2025, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #37, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 7 years, 7 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,113 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 30 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 60 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maaya · #2673, 14y
Maaz · #615, 26y
Mabelle · #2589, 11y
Mabli · #620, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Abbey · #37, 30y
Josh · #38, 36y
Katelyn · #35, 36y
Lexi · #40, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Austin · #37, 62y
Corey · #37, 54y
Cormac · #37, 62y
Grainne · #37, 61y

Mabel was ranked #37 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mabel and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mabel without appearing here.

Mabel moved ahead of

Yvonne Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1250 and #1095 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1025 and #2023.
Belinda Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1025 and #898 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #656 and #1530.
Suzanne Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1025 and #871 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #656 and #1317.
Kerry Compare
In 2007 they stood at #534 and #527 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #378 and #972.

Moved ahead of Mabel

Sienna Compare
In 2005 they stood at #512 and #620 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2006 that had become #635 and #142.
Mila Compare
In 2007 they stood at #549 and #842 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #862 and #597.
Ivy Compare
In 2006 they stood at #440 and #497 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #534 and #390.
Elsie Compare
In 2006 they stood at #512 and #620 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #549 and #431.

Moved the opposite way to Mabel

Audrey Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mabel went from #385 to #94 while Audrey went from #73 to #885.
Eileen Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mabel went from #385 to #94 while Eileen went from #17 to #443.
Hanna Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mabel went from #385 to #94 while Hanna went from #167 to #273.
Ida Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mabel went from #385 to #94 while Ida went from #325 to #885.

Moved the same way as Mabel

Amy Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mabel went from #385 to #94 and Amy from #262 to #138.
Annie Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mabel went from #385 to #94 and Annie from #131 to #33.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mabel went from #385 to #94 and Charlotte from #172 to #43.
Clodagh Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Mabel went from #385 to #94 and Clodagh from #209 to #47.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #37 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mabel

Mabel at a glance

What stands out in Mabel's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mabel across 3 official records

Mabel by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mabel appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Mabel at a glance

What stands out in Mabel's record

Mabel across 3 official records

Mabel by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mabel appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Mabel

Mabel and the names beside it

Mabel moved ahead of

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