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    The surname Mabe

    A surname, carried by 6,939 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M100

    Mabe: #5,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mabe #5,052, 6,939 people Mabe: #5,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mabe #5,052, 6,939 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mabe is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,939 people named Mabe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,494 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,877.

    #5,052
    rank among US surnames
    6,939
    people in 2010
    2.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #4,714)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,043Heffernan6,96144,354
    #5,045Real6,95944,366
    #5,046Yeh6,95844,373
    #5,047Beeson6,95244,411
    #5,048Beardsley6,95044,424
    #5,049Woolsey6,94944,430
    #5,050Apple6,94844,437

    Who is named Mabe

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Mabe identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mabe

    Mabe has the Soundex code M100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M100.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mabe?
    6,939 people in the United States had the surname Mabe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,494 Americans. It ranked 5,052nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mabe?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mabe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.0% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Mabe getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,877 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,939 in 2010, up 0.9%.