How rare is the name Sybil?

9,208 people in the United States have the first name Sybil, about 1 in 32,801. It ranks #2,602 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SYBIL

#2,602

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,208
About
1 in 32,801
This common or more
80.3%
Who bears it

Of the 9,208 people named Sybil, 68.7% reported their origin as White, 22.1% as Black and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Sybil peaked in 1921, when 541 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18812025
Peak year
1921
Births that year
541
In 2025*
152 ▼72%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 20,365 babies have been given the name since 1881. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Sybil by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #588. The largest share of babies named Sybil, 33.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,34187
1890s#880280
1900s#660640
1910s#6272,509
1920s#5884,442
1930s#6673,119
1940s#8372,709
1950s#1,2031,887
1960s#1,5001,396
1970s#2,041931
1980s#3,564471
1990s#8,117198
2000s#12,392150
2010s#4,336735
2020s#2,888811
Before 19012.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2733.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4527.6%
Baby boom 1946–6418%
Generation X 1965–807.8%
Millennials 1981–962.6%
Generation Z 1997–121.1%
2013 and later7.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Sybil is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sybil has been most common in South Carolina (4.6×), Louisiana (4.5×), and Alabama (4.1×), and least common in Indiana (0.11×).

14,593 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Sybil

#2,600 Vincenzo · 9,238#2,601 Breana · 9,227#2,603 Aditya · 9,207#2,604 Sun · 9,188

Compare