Given name & surname · also Tamil
Sibi
Sibi is a masculine given name from Tamil, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Sibi comes from Tamil, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sibi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 5 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 227 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sibi’s family of names
In English usage, Sibi was borrowed from the Tamil form சிபி.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sibi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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