girls:
53.1k births since 1880
#556 (90th percentile)
boys:
215 births since 1902
#4371 (5th percentile)
overall:
53.3k births since 1880
#1038 (87th percentile)
The name Mable is the #1,038 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,317 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #556 (90.3% percentile) for all time with 53,102 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,371 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 215 births since 1902.
Mable has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1902 for boys).
The name Mable has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mable reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 76.7% percentile (ranked #134) with 1,400 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 1,814 births per million (ranked 69.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mable ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mable reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #517) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1943.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mable".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Mable. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Mable is pronounced as MAY-buhl, which has 2 syllables.
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