Maybel is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Maybel in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Maybel in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Maybel by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Maybel ranks at #7,444. That means there are 7,443 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Maybel. Girls named Maybel have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,105 Maybel ranked higher than ever in 1890. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Maybel has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2013. In general, parents name their daughters Maybel only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maybel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Maybel continues to be a precious jewel: 14 newborns were named Maybel that year, ranking #6,652 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Maybel, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
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 six letters, the name Maybel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Maybel 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 Maybel, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Yoyo
Butterfly
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maybel
Maybel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
Y
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L
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.
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A
Y
B
E
L
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. Maybel sounds like this:
