Maybelline
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 20 babies a year in the US.
Maybelline by the numbers
Maybelline was given to 20 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 26 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Maybelline
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Maybelline. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Maybellemay flower beautiful; a form of Maybelle28 in the US (2017)
- Madellinewoman from magdala; spelling variant of Madeline5 in the US (2017)
- Marcellineof mars; warlike; a form of Marcella5 in the US (2017)
- Madelinefrom Magdala; a form of Magdalene2,938 in the US (2017)
- Madeleineof Magdala; woman of Magdala179 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marcelineof Mars; dedicated to Mars; feminine form of Marcellus194 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Maybelline
Names that are said the same way as Maybelline, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Mabelyn5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Maybelline
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