Comments for MABEL:

On the TV show "Mad About You," they named their daughter Mabel after "Mothers Always Bring Extra Love." I thought that was cute.

-- Anonymous User  1/25/2005

This is a cool name, but it's pretty rare now.

-- Anonymous User  4/28/2005

Mabel Normand was a comic actress of the silent screen.

-- alberto  6/7/2005

This was my grandmother's name. I think it is beautiful and I consider using it for a middle name in the future.

-- SOUNDOFSiLENCE  2/25/2006

Rhymes with:
Table
Label
Stable
Able
Fable
Cable.

-- FairyGirl  6/26/2006

Mabel Philipson (1 January 1887 - 8 January 1951) was a British actress and politician. She was the third female member to serve in the House of Commons after this became legally possible in 1918, serving Berwick-upon-Tweed.

-- ADT  7/1/2006

Mabel Taliaferro (Maybelle Evelyn Taliaferro) alias Nell (May 21, 1887 New York, NY - January 24, 1979 Honolulu, HI) was an Italian-American stage and a silent screen actress, known as the Sweetheart of American Movies.

-- ADT  7/1/2006

Mabel was the name of Tolkien's mother.

-- Anonymous User  12/28/2006

The cosmetic company Maybelline got its name from the founder's sister Mabel, who he had created the first mascara for.

-- Anonymous User  3/11/2007

Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau (born 1968) is the wife of Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau, second son of Queen Beatrix and the late Prince Claus of the Netherlands. She has two daughters, Luana and Zaria.

-- Kate  4/29/2007

This name always makes me think of Queen Mab, queen of the fairies in English folklore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mab

-- isabel  6/4/2007

Normally I think of this as an old lady's name, but it kind of lacks the hideous image of certain other old lady names like Ethel, Gladys, Mildred, Bertha and Gertrude.

Wilfred Pickles the British comedian had a wife called Mabel, and it is also the name of the respective daughters of British comedienne Tracey Ullman (now a U.S. citizen) and Swedish-born singer Neneh Cherry.

-- freeserve.co.uk  8/30/2007

It's hot.

-- laflakysexi4life  9/4/2007

Also a rare boy's name in the United States in the first decade of the 20th century, but now completely obsolete in that role.

-- freeserve.co.uk  9/11/2007

Mabel is the main female character in Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta "The Pirates of Penzance" (1879).

-- Kate  1/22/2008

Somehow I just don't like the sound of this name, and it strikes me as old-fashioned and cutesy.

-- slight night shiver  4/28/2008

"So I says to Mabel I says." - Bart Simpson [quote some random walk-in moment]

-- Athena.Asis  10/11/2008

I think that naming twins Sable and Mabel would be so cute!

-- rachypiesheepbaa  2/8/2009

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