Meaning not yet researched.
Sybil: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 152 in 2025. Its best rank was #282 in 1919.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #282 in 1919; #1,426 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sybil in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,426 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1919, at #282.
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Sybil: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 152 girls in 2025. Peak: #282 in 1919 · most girls in one year: 541 (1921).
In 2025, 152 US girls were named Sybil, making it the 1,426th most common girls’ name of the year, up 141 places from #1,567 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 136 girls named Sybil in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #282, reached in 1919. The most girls given the name in a single year was 541, in 1921. For comparison, it was #2,122 in 2015 and #583 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sybil in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 20,365 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,442 babies named Sybil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,261 US girls were named Sybil; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 154. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,574 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sybil ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #824 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sibyl (4,464 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cybil, Sibel and Sybilla are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cybil (593), Sibel (259), Sybilla (174), Cybill (135), Sybel (123), Sybol (101), Sibylla (57), Sybile (51), Sybille (11), Sybal (10), Sybill (7), Sibil (5), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sybil in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #824 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #831 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #898 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #922 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,187 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,194 | #1,741 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,230 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,389 | #1,280 |
| New York | 6 | #2,046 | #2,512 |
| California | 10 | #2,074 | #2,979 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,187 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 152 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2023 | 154 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2022 | 145 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 2015 | 91 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,760 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,089 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,727 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,915 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,378 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,473 | — | — |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,804 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,219 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,796 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,221 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,067 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,286 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,769 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,240 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,483 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,455 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,064 | — | — |
| 1995 | 20 | #5,006 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,364 | — | — |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,403 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,764 | — | — |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,350 | — | — |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1980 | 93 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1979 | 91 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1977 | 89 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1976 | 104 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1975 | 119 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1974 | 117 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1973 | 103 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1972 | 88 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1971 | 83 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1969 | 79 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1966 | 144 | #834 | — | — |
| 1965 | 153 | #802 | — | — |
| 1964 | 143 | #868 | — | — |
| 1963 | 210 | #706 | — | — |
| 1962 | 181 | #775 | — | — |
| 1961 | 129 | #955 | — | — |
| 1960 | 165 | #808 | — | — |
| 1959 | 146 | #846 | — | — |
| 1958 | 182 | #736 | — | — |
| 1957 | 169 | #769 | — | — |
| 1956 | 168 | #751 | — | — |
| 1955 | 178 | #709 | — | — |
| 1954 | 194 | #667 | — | — |
| 1953 | 203 | #625 | — | — |
| 1952 | 215 | #595 | — | — |
| 1951 | 224 | #573 | — | — |
| 1950 | 208 | #583 | — | — |
| 1949 | 214 | #574 | — | — |
| 1948 | 220 | #561 | — | — |
| 1947 | 249 | #532 | — | — |
| 1946 | 277 | #473 | — | — |
| 1945 | 241 | #462 | — | — |
| 1944 | 256 | #455 | — | — |
| 1943 | 287 | #437 | — | — |
| 1942 | 292 | #423 | — | — |
| 1941 | 305 | #394 | — | — |
| 1940 | 368 | #333 | — | — |
| 1939 | 366 | #327 | — | — |
| 1938 | 357 | #336 | — | — |
| 1937 | 322 | #359 | — | — |
| 1936 | 370 | #320 | — | — |
| 1935 | 287 | #374 | — | — |
| 1934 | 271 | #395 | — | — |
| 1933 | 286 | #382 | — | — |
| 1932 | 268 | #399 | — | — |
| 1931 | 274 | #395 | — | — |
| 1930 | 318 | #385 | — | — |
| 1929 | 338 | #359 | — | — |
| 1928 | 419 | #326 | — | — |
| 1927 | 436 | #321 | — | — |
| 1926 | 381 | #342 | — | — |
| 1925 | 442 | #319 | — | — |
| 1924 | 479 | #305 | 5 | #4,875 |
| 1923 | 455 | #303 | — | — |
| 1922 | 463 | #298 | — | — |
| 1921 | 541 | #285 | — | — |
| 1920 | 483 | #296 | — | — |
| 1919 | 515 | #282 | — | — |
| 1918 | 460 | #299 | — | — |
| 1917 | 288 | #373 | — | — |
| 1916 | 287 | #362 | — | — |
| 1915 | 269 | #365 | — | — |
| 1914 | 206 | #370 | — | — |
| 1913 | 165 | #377 | — | — |
| 1912 | 117 | #437 | — | — |
| 1911 | 96 | #412 | — | — |
| 1910 | 106 | #384 | — | — |
| 1909 | 81 | #407 | — | — |
| 1908 | 76 | #416 | — | — |
| 1907 | 55 | #484 | — | — |
| 1906 | 84 | #374 | — | — |
| 1905 | 60 | #437 | — | — |
| 1904 | 58 | #426 | — | — |
| 1903 | 54 | #434 | — | — |
| 1902 | 56 | #414 | — | — |
| 1901 | 52 | #419 | — | — |
| 1900 | 64 | #422 | — | — |
| 1899 | 51 | #412 | — | — |
| 1898 | 39 | #500 | — | — |
| 1897 | 37 | #476 | — | — |
| 1896 | 31 | #548 | — | — |
| 1895 | 29 | #562 | — | — |
| 1894 | 22 | #640 | — | — |
| 1893 | 18 | #708 | — | — |
| 1892 | 18 | #703 | — | — |
| 1891 | 25 | #521 | — | — |
| 1890 | 10 | #932 | — | — |
| 1889 | 14 | #719 | — | — |
| 1888 | 16 | #660 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #849 | — | — |
| 1886 | 9 | #821 | — | — |
| 1885 | 10 | #738 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #918 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1882 | 11 | #595 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #815 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).