About the name Maribel
Maribel belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Maribel first appears in Social Security records in 1906. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #316 in 1980, and in 2024 119 babies received the name — 24,742 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.