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Sybella

Girls' name

Variant of Sibylla

Sybella has been given to 231 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 2017, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Sybella, 2024

1 in 371,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sybella: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Sibylla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sybella means

Sybella is a variant of Sibylla.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sybella is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /sɪ.ˈbɛl.ə/ for Sybella.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sybella → Sibylla → Sibyl. The family’s meaning is “sibyl”, recorded in English with the source elements Síbulla.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sibylla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 231 girls were recorded with the name Sybella between 1918 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2017; its best national rank was #4,751 in 1918.

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 Sybella?

Sybella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sybella 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sybella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sybellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sybella was born before 2014 — so the typical Sybella is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
220
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Sybella 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (20)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,751
1918

Spellings of Sybella

Sybella is not the most common spelling — Isabella is, with 58.2% against Sybella's 0.03%.

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 Sybella is used

Across 1910–2025, Sybella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Sybella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sybella around the world

Where Sybella 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
    1991–2015
    #7,440
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2002–2011
    #407
    in 2011

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

Sybella 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
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Best rank ever
#4,751
1918
Peak year
2017
20 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
231
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sybella

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

SybillaOrnellaAstellaLabellaAniellaAryellaBryellaAviellaBreellaTalullaMayellaMarellaIsobellaAnnellaSavillaIsraellaCirillaSybrinaCyrillaAzriellaAdriellaSamuellaEriellaIsella

Sibling names for Sybella

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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