Girls' name · peaked in 1905

Mable name popularity since 1925

24,032 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Mable. Half of them were born in 1936 or earlier, so the typical Mable is about 90 years old in 2026. Mable peaked in 1905 as the #112 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 24,032; Named Mable, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1905; #112 for girls that year
Typical age: About 90; Median birth year 1936
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,450 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.5% girls; 23,904 girls · 128 boys
Most popular in: Mississippi; 5.69× its national share

Peak year is the year Mable made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Mable births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Mable peaked earlier, in 1905.

Steepest fall: Between 1955 and 1960, Mable's share of baby girls fell by 53%, from 1 in 5,930 to 1 in 12,500.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Mable's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Mable.

Decade by decade

Babies named Mable in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	6,258	47	–
1930s	7,751	75	#232
1940s	4,921	6	#319
1950s	2,659	0	#511
1960s	950	0	#1,175
1970s	308	0	#2,779
1980s	185	0	#4,077
1990s	106	0	#6,884
2000s	157	0	#9,212
2010s	261	0	#5,950
2020–25	348	0	#2,450

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

54.9% of babies named Mable from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Mable is most popular

The index compares Mable's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Mable.

State	Index	Babies
Mississippi	5.69×	1,465
Arkansas	4.38×	956
Alabama	4.11×	1,546
North Carolina	4.00×	2,408
South Carolina	3.71×	1,103

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Mable's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Mable.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Mable (1905).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data