Sibyl
About 4,464 American babies have been named Sibyl since 1880, most of them around 1918. In 2025 it ranked 5,410th. About 1,300 Sibyls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sibyl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,464
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 380th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,410th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Sibyls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,464 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,300 are alive — 28 in every hundred. Roughly 190 of them are children and 600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
name of ancient Greek prophetesses.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sibyls
- Sibyl Buck (born 1972)American model and musician
- Sibyl Sanderson (1864–1903)American operatic soprano
People named Sibyl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sibyl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sibyl is most concentrated in Arkansas (11.4×), Oklahoma (5.0×), Alabama (4.5×), Mississippi (4.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Sibyl peaked:
Sibyl elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Sibyl | 90 | 4,197th |
| England and Wales girls | Sibyl | 8 | 3,961st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.