Maybelle is a variant of Mabel, which comes from the Latin amabilis and means "lovable". It reads as May plus Belle, and country music pioneer Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family is its most famous bearer. In the United States Maybelle is a vintage rarity: it has climbed from around number 5000 in 2018 to number 2849 in 2025, its best rank in the data.