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Sybilla

Girls' name

Variant of Sibylla

Sybilla has been given to 174 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1917, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Sybilla, 2011

1 in 732,000

Sybilla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sybilla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Sibylla

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Sybilla means

Sybilla is a variant of Sibylla.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sybilla is used in Polish and Late Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sɨ.ˈbil.la/ for Sybilla.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sybilla is used in English and Polish. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sibylla and Sibyl.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Sybilla is pronounced /sɘˈbil.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 174 girls were recorded with the name Sybilla between 1880 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1917; its best national rank was #826 in 1880.

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 Sybilla?

Sybilla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sybilla 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sybilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sybillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sybilla was born before 1919 — so the typical Sybilla is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
18
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Sybilla 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 1917 (10)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#826
1880

Spellings of Sybilla

Sybilla is not the most common spelling — Sybil is, with 88.8% against Sybilla's 0.76%.

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.

Sybilla around the world

Where Sybilla 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
    2003–2003
    #4,373
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1959–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sybilla 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
#826
1880
Peak year
1917
10 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
174
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sybilla

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

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Sibling names for Sybilla

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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