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Maybell

About 2,207 American babies have been named Maybell since 1882, most of them around 1919. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 290 Maybells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Maybell

By the numbers

Total US births
2,207
Estimated living today
290
Median age today
76
Peak year
1919
Best rank
823rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1882

How old the living Maybells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,207 babies given the name since 1882, about 290 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Maybell is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Maybell is most concentrated in South Carolina (30.3×), Georgia (6.5×), North Carolina (5.3×), Texas (1.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1919

The most popular girls’ names the year Maybell peaked:

All the names of 1919

Related names

Maybell against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.