Sibyl
Sibyl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 376th, in 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918299 births
- Best rank
- #376in 1919
- Since 1880
- 4,441people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,441 girls have been named Sibyl in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 299 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 299 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1910s alone account for 26%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sibyl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 58 | |
| 1890s | 174 | |
| 1900s | 270 | |
| 1910s | 1,159 | |
| 1920s | 1,000 | |
| 1930s | 394 | |
| 1940s | 332 | |
| 1950s | 350 | |
| 1960s | 268 | |
| 1970s | 157 | |
| 1980s | 80 | |
| 1990s | 24 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 98 | |
| 2020s | 71 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Sibyl was the 380th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Sibyl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fernpeak 1918
- Fernepeak 1916
- Eldapeak 1916
- Helenpeak 1918
- Edythepeak 1918
- Ruthpeak 1920
- Irenepeak 1921
- Olgapeak 1918
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.