6 thoughts on “Dear Mable

  1. For as long as I can remember, Mabel has been an old woman’s name. Logically I know they must all have been young once, but it’s still weird to imagine a schoolgirl named Mabel.

    Though apparently there’s a popular young English singer named Mabel. I wonder if it made a comeback in the 90s.

    “Mash note,” it turns out, is slang for love letter. Supposedly it comes from a Romani word for admirer.Report

    1. Speaking of Romani, I always wondered why it was named after Rome. It turns out that there’s no etymological connection at all, with Romani being derived from a Sanskrit word for entertainer and Rome being derived from a personal name.Report

    2. There are some names that seem reserved for senior citizens even if they were popular at time. Mabel, Edith, Irving, and Alfred are examples of these names. I can’t imagine anybody young having these names even though that is impossible. I’m guessing that when people holding these names were young, they got referred to be by nicknames.Report

        1. In fact, if you plug in Mabel, it turns out that the name was *very* popular in the 20s-30s and then fell off a Baby name cliff in 1964. But, good news, its seeing a resurgence since 2013 and was the 436th most popular name in 2018!

          So, look for a rash of movies in approx 2035 with the cute MPDG named Mabel.Report

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