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Sibel

#16,923 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Cybele

Sibel has been given to 259 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #16,923 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Sibel, 2025

1 in 663,000

Sibel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sibel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Cybele

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sibel means

Sibel is a form of Cybele.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sibel is used in Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cybele.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 259 girls were recorded with the name Sibel between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1988; its best national rank was #6,228 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #14,857 in 2020 to #16,923 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,847 in 2015 to #16,923 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sibel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,923
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sibel 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sibel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sibels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sibel was born before 2005 — so the typical Sibel is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
259
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Choose a decade

2010s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Sibel 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
−3,641
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,066
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,076
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 1988 (13)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,228
1988

Spellings of Sibel

Sibel is not the most common spelling — Mabel is, with 45.5% against Sibel's 0.08%.

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 Sibel is used

Across 1910–2025, Sibel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Sibel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sibel around the world

Where Sibel 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #2,140
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1975–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sibel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,923
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,066
Best rank ever
#6,228
1988
Peak year
1988
13 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
259
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Sibel

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

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Sibling names for Sibel

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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