Sybil
Sybil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 136 births. Its best rank was 282nd, in 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1360.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1921541 births
- Best rank
- #282in 1919
- Since 1881
- 20,207people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,207 girls have been named Sybil in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 541 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sybil | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 87 | |
| 1890s | 280 | |
| 1900s | 640 | |
| 1910s | 2,509 | |
| 1920s | 4,437 | |
| 1930s | 3,119 | |
| 1940s | 2,709 | |
| 1950s | 1,887 | |
| 1960s | 1,396 | |
| 1970s | 931 | |
| 1980s | 471 | |
| 1990s | 198 | |
| 2000s | 150 | |
| 2010s | 734 | |
| 2020s | 659 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Sybil was the 285th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Sybil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Revapeak 1921
- Marianpeak 1924
- Virginiapeak 1922
- Rethapeak 1924
- Ardellpeak 1922
- Alenepeak 1920
- Bernadinepeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.