Mabel
Meaning of Mabel
Mabel is a sunlit antique freshly polished for modern ears, born from the Latin “amabilis,” meaning “lovable.” The name wandered out of medieval England, twirled through Victorian parlors, and now salsa-steps onto today’s playgrounds, rising from the 800s a generation ago to about 210 in 2024. Its melody—MAY-buhl—rings like a gentle church bell at siesta time. Pop culture keeps her lively, from the quick-witted Mabel Pines in “Gravity Falls” to singer Mabel lighting up the charts. She evokes lace dresses, lemonade stands, and a dash of mariachi brass, yet Mae makes an easy, breezy nickname. Never dusty, always charming, Mabel hands a little girl the built-in promise “you are loved,” spoken in every language the heart knows.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as MAY-buhl (/ˈmeɪbəl/)
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Notable People Named Mabel
| Mabel McVey is a singer and the daughter of producer Cameron McVey and singer Neneh Cherry, who rose to fame in 2017 when Finders Keepers reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart. |
| Mabel Ping-Hua Lee - Mabel Ping Hua Lee was a Chinese American suffrage leader who later became a Baptist minister in Chinatown, New York City. |
| Mabel St Clair Stobart - Mabel Annie St Clair Stobart was a British suffragist and aid worker who led all female medical units in the Balkan Wars and World War I, became the first woman Major in any national army, and authored several books and articles. |
| Mabel Loomis Todd was an American editor and writer best known for editing Emily Dickinson's posthumous poems and letters, and for novels, travel books, and an astronomy textbook coauthored with her husband. |
| Mabel Normand was a pioneering American silent film actress, comedian, writer, and director who worked with Mack Sennett at Keystone, starred with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, and ran her own studio in the late 1910s and early 1920s. |
| Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell was an American businesswoman, daughter of Boston lawyer Gardiner Green Hubbard, and wife of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell. |
| Mabel Clare Deering was a San Francisco Bay Area socialite and journalist who championed women's suffrage and the inclusion of black women, and as a UC student protested a scholarship medal awarded to a man over her. |
| Mabel Norris Reese was a Florida journalist and civil rights advocate who ran the Mount Dora Topic, covered the Groveland Four case later chronicled in the Pulitzer Prize winning Devil in the Grove, and was honored with a 2020 commemorative bust for opposing the Ku Klux Klan. |
| Mabel Dodge Luhan - Mabel Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan was an American memoirist and arts patron associated with the Taos art colony. |
| Mabel Boll, the Queen of Diamonds, was a 1920s American socialite known for bold press nicknames and early aviation record attempts. |
| Mabel Ruth Hokin was a University of Wisconsin biochemist whose early work with Lowell Hokin on phosphoinositide turnover in secretory tissues defined the PI Effect in cell signaling. |
| Dame Mabel Brookes was an Australian socialite, writer, and humanitarian best known as president of Queen Victoria Hospital from 1923 to 1970, where she oversaw three new wings within a decade. |
| Mabel Vernon was a Quaker American suffragist and pacifist who helped lead the Congressional Union and organized the Silent Sentinels pickets at the White House. |
| Mabel Louise Robinson was an American author of children and young adult books who portrayed intelligent, relatable girls facing real-life challenges and was twice a Newbery Medal runner-up. |
