Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Sybille is a form of Sibylle. Sibylle comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sybille through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 6 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 1962. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 379 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.
Sybille’s family of names
In German usage, Sybille has a related form in SIBYLLE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Sybilequivalent
- Sibylequivalent
- Sibyllaequivalent
- Sibillaequivalent
- Sybillaequivalent
- Sibylaequivalent
- Sibilaequivalent
- Sibil·laequivalent
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People named Sybille
- Sybille BammerAustrian tennis playerborn 1980
- Sybille Bedfordwriter (1911–2006)
- Sybille SchmitzGerman film and stage actress (1909-1955)
- Sibylla of BurgundyQueen of Sicily1126–1150
- Sibylle of SaxonyDuchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (1515-1592)
- Sybille SchmidtGerman rowerborn 1967
- Sybille ReinhardtEast German rowerborn 1957
- Sybille SchönrockEast German swimmerborn 1964
- Sybille de Selys LongchampsBelgian nobleborn 1941
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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