Amabel

Latin

"lovable"

Amabel Origin and Meaning

The name Amabel is a girl's name of French, Latin origin meaning "lovable".

Amabel is an older name than Annabel and a lot more distinctive. Amabel was a very common name in the twelfth and thirteen centuries, then was revived during the nineteenth century British fad for medieval names.

In a short story by H.H. Munro, about Amabel, the vicar's daughter, it is said "Her name was the vicar's one extravagance."

Amabel's shortened form Mabel overtook the mama name early on.

Amabel Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1840 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Amabel

• 1840 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Amabel

• Amabel Anderson Arnold American lawyer and organizer of the Woman's State Bar Association of Missouri, the first association of women lawyers in the world
• Amabel Nevill Moseley English chess champion; mother of scientist Henry Moseley
• Amabel Strachey Williams Ellis, English writer; wife of architect Clough Williams,Ellis
• Amabel Penfeather pen name of American novelist Susan Fenimore Cooper
• Amabel Hume Campbell, 1st Countess of Grey (1751–1833), English diarist and political writer who was a countess in her own right

The name Amabel in Pop Culture

• Amabel Swanson character in the game Penumbra: Black Plague
• Amabel character in The World Without End by Ken Follett
• Amabel main character in The Aunt and Amabel, short story by E. Nesbit that was a precursor to The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis