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Cybele

Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Cybele has been given to 156 babies in the U.S. since 1963. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Cybele, 2023

1 in 552,000

Cybele over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cybele: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cybele means

Cybele is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cybele is used in Near Eastern Mythology (Latinized).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪb.ə.li/ for Cybele.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 156 girls were recorded with the name Cybele between 1963 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1966; its best national rank was #3,058 in 1966.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Cybele?

Cybele had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cybele sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cybele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cybeles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cybele was born before 1968 — so the typical Cybele is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
156
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Cybele rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1966 (17)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,058
1966

Spellings of Cybele

Cybele is not the most common spelling — Syble is, with 88.1% against Cybele's 2.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cybele is used

Across 1910–2025, Cybele was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,358,056 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cybele has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cybele around the world

Where Cybele ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1965–2025
    #2,851
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1975–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cybele by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,058
1966
Peak year
1966
17 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
156
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cybele

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cybele

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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