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Girls' name · peaked in 1980

Maribel name popularity since 1925

24,869 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Maribel (99.3% girls, 0.7% boys). Half of them were born in 1987 or earlier, so the typical Maribel is about 39 years old in 2026. Maribel peaked in 1980 as the #315 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925
24,869
Named Maribel, 1925–2025
Peak year
1980
#315 for girls that year
Typical age
About 39
Median birth year 1987
In 2025
Not top 1,000
#1,662 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys
99.3% girls
24,684 girls · 185 boys
Most popular in
California
3.75× its national share

Peak year is the year Maribel 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.

Maribel births per year, 1925–2025

Babies named Maribel per year, 1925–2025

1980 was the biggest year for Maribel both by count and as a share of all babies.

  • Fastest rise: Between 1966 and 1971, Maribel became 2.9× more common, from 1 in 8,250 baby girls to 1 in 2,890.
  • Steepest fall: Between 2005 and 2010, its share of baby girls fell by 55%, from 1 in 3,900 to 1 in 8,630.

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

Decade by decade

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

Decade GirlsBoys Rank
1925–29 700 –
1930s 790 Under 5
1940s 540 Under 5
1950s 2150 #2,200
1960s 2,4370 #646
1970s 5,34346 #380
1980s 5,54491 #463
1990s 5,19748 #484
2000s 3,3780 #599
2010s 1,5900 #1,413
2020–25 7770 #1,662

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

35.4% of babies named Maribel from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Maribel by generation Greatest Generation born 1925–27 0.2% Silent Generation born 1928–45 0.6% Baby Boomers born 1946–64 4.8% Gen X born 1965–80 30.8% Millennials born 1981–96 35.4% Gen Z born 1997–2012 21.3% Gen Alpha born 2013–25 7.1%

Where Maribel is most popular

The index compares Maribel'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 Maribel.

StateIndexBabies
California3.75×8,886
Texas2.86×5,019
Arizona2.17×630
Illinois1.56×1,704
New York1.44×2,447

Names with a similar story

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

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Maribel (1980).

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