Mabel (name)

Mabel is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

Mabel is the English short form of Amabel, or Amabella, which was widespread in the 12th century. These in turn can be derived from the Latin adjective amabilis , which means as much as amiable .

In the German-speaking world, the name was often chosen around 1900. Today it rarely occurs.

variants

• Irish : Maible
• French : Marbelle

Pet forms:

• Mab
• Mabs

Well-known namesake

• Mabel Agyemang , Chief Justice of Gambia
• Mabel Esther Allan (1915–1998), British children's author
• Mabel Álvarez (1891–1985), American painter
• Mabel Besant-Scott (1870–1952), English theosophist, Rosicrucian and Freemason
• Mabel Brookes (1890–1975), Australian writer, activist, and philanthropist
• Mabel Cahill (1863–1905/06) Irish tennis player
• Mabel Collins (1851-1927), British author and theosophist
• Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962), American society great, art patron and writer
• Mabel Dove Danquah (1905–1984), Ghanaian journalist, politician and writer
• Mabel Gay (* 1983), a Cuban triple jumper
• Mabel Hardy (1879–?), English badminton player
• Mabel Howard (1894–1972), New Zealand politician
• Mabel Karr (1934-2001), Argentine actress
• Mabel Lang (1917–2010), American classical philologist, ancient historian and classical archaeologist
• Mabel Mambretti (* 1942), Argentine composer and musicologist
• Mabel McVey (* 1996), British-Swedish R&B singer and songwriter
• Mabel Mercer (1900-1984), British variety singer
• Mabel Normand (1892-1930), American silent film actress
• Mabel Parton (1881–1962), English tennis player
• Mabel Poulton (1901-1994), English film actress
• Mabel Rivera (born 1952), Spanish actress
• Mabel Scott (1915–2000), American gospel and rhythm and blues singer
• Mabel Wisse Smit (* 1968), wife of Prince Johan Friso of Orange-Nassau
• Mabel Taylor , American archer

Varia

• Heinz Rudolf Kunze published his song Find Mabel in 1986 . He is referring to the work The Long Farewell by Raymond Chandler . His fictional character Philip Marlowe, a private detective, is commissioned by a man to find a woman who is with him only because of the money. In Kunze's song the chorus says: "Marlowe, I beg you, Marlowe, you will find Mabel."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Vasseur, Jacques: Goldmann's big book of first names . Munich: Goldmann, 2001. - ISBN 3-442-10872-1
2. ↑ cf. Gerr, Elke: The big first name book . Munich: Humboldt-Taschenbuchverl. Jacobi, 2003. ISBN 3-89994-841-6
3. ↑ The long farewell . Diogenes-Verlag, 1975, pp. 159-163