Meanings
proper noun
- A female given name from Latin.
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It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) and May my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen Maybel.
2010, Margaret Forster, Isa & May, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 5
Origin
A nonstandard spelling of Mabel.
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APA
Maybel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Maybel
MLA
“Maybel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Maybel. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Maybel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Maybel.
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