girls:
20.1k births since 1881
#1031 (82nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1924
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
20.1k births since 1881
#1810 (77th percentile)
The name Sybil is the #1,810 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,075 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 76.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,031 (82.0% percentile) for all time with 20,070 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1924.
Sybil first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1924 for boys).
The name Sybil has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sybil reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 54.8% percentile (ranked #274) with 423 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 438 births per million (ranked 54.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sybil ranks #799 for girls (15.6% percentile) with 87 births per million, which is 20.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sybil reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #554) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1924.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sybil".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Sybil. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Sybil is pronounced as SIH-buhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SIH-bihl, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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