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I like it. It's warm and charming with a little bit of spunk just because it's still not the norm. It reminds me of a warm blueberry muffin with tea on a cold Winter day. It was my adopted great-grandmother's name. My mother wanted to use it was a fn or mn. I wouldn't use it because of these complex family connections but I like it a lot.

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ETA: I would be more likely to use a double fn like May Isobel or Margaret Isobel and call her May-Belle as a fun nickname. I know the pronunciation isn't the same but I like the Southern charm of May-Belle, though not enough to actually give a child that name formally. I would love for someone I know to use Mabel though.

This message was edited 11/14/2015, 7:29 PM