Sibelius
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: a Finnish surname, notably of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/sajbʲɪʎiəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sibelius is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 35K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 150K
- DKDenmark1 in 451K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
159 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a Finnish surname, notably of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sibelius is read
(measured from records)Sibelius is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English60%
Jean, composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sibelius in Spanish.
- German7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sibelius in German.
- Swedish6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sibelius in Swedish.
- Finnish5.3%
a Finnish surname, notably of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sibelius counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
159 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sibelius is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, finski skladatelj nacionalno-romantičarskog stila s inspiracijama u narodnoj poeziji (ep Kalevala ) i u slikovitoj prirodi (simfonijska poema Finlandia ); pored simfonijske i koncertne glazbe skladao scensku i komornu glazbu i solo pjesme
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gerard Sibeliusb. 1734NLDutch engraver (1734–1785)
- Maria Charlotta Sibeliusb. 1841mother of Jean Sibelius
- Jean Sibeliusb. 1865FIFinnish composer (1865–1957)
- Christian Sibeliusb. 1869FIFinnish doctor and professor of psychiatry (1869–1922)
- Aino Sibeliusb. 1871FIwife of Jean Sibelius (1871–1969)
- Nelma Sibeliusb. 1878FIFinnish author
- Katarina Ilvesb. 1903FInot in their usual namedaughter of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, wife of the bank director Eero Ilves (1903–1984)
- Johanna Sibeliusb. 1913DEGerman screenwriter (1913–1970)
- Karl M. Sibeliusb. 1969ATAustrian actor
- Jenni Sibeliusb. 1980FIFinnish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 159 | #8,919 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 77 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 68 | #9,822 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #32,190 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sibelius mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname, notably of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sibelius?
- A machine transcription gives /sajbʲɪʎiəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sibelius have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 159 people named Sibelius, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sibelius most common?
- Sibelius is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sibelius?
- In Finland, the national register counted 159 people named Sibelius, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sibeliusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sibelius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.