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Sybille

Girls' name

Sibyl, through Sibylle

Sybille has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1958, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Sybille, 1962

1 in 807,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sybille: meaning, origin, and history

Sibyl, through Sibylle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sybille means

Sybille belongs to the name family reached through Sybille → Sibylle. Its meaning is “sibyl”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sybille is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sibylle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Sybille between 1958 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1958; its best national rank was #6,017 in 1958.

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 Sybille?

Sybille had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1962
1 in 807,000
5 of 4,035,213 births
Among girls only
1 in 393,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1962
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
559,400 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sybille 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 1962 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 559,400 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sybille. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sybilles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sybille was born before 1958 — so the typical Sybille is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Sybille 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 1958 (6)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,017
1958

Spellings of Sybille

Sybille is not the most common spelling — Sybil is, with 76.4% against Sybille's 0.04%.

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.

Sybille around the world

Where Sybille 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
    1927–2025
    #738
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1955–1963
    #644
    in 1963

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.

Sybille 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
#6,017
1958
Peak year
1958
6 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
1962
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sybille

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

NirelleReuelleZenelleSybrenaSyrelleAstelleRhyelleNyielleYarielleSybillXarielleArvilleRubelleLozelleSadelleJoielleDarelleKayelleZanelleJerelleAreilleArbelleRudelleSchelle

Sibling names for Sybille

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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