Mable is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Mable is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Mable. In the SmartGenius ranking, Mable is #3,760 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 40,014 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Mable. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Mable annualy. This means that there have been girls named Mable who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Mable have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Mable even more than any other time: in 1905, it holds its present record of #110 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mable was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Mable has never been ranked higher than #110. In 2022, she rivaled the 3,076 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 45 girls named Mable were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Mable were born, there have been 13 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Mable is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Mable and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mable, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Butterfly
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mable
Mable
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
B
L
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
B
L
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mable sounds like this:
