Sibylle
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: sibyl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɪbʏlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sibylle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.2K
- USUnited States1 in 899K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sibyl (a pagan female oracle)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sibylle is read(measured from records)
Sibylle is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- German68%
sibyl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French18%
sibyl (a pagan female oracle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Du grec sibylla, « prophétesse »; associée aux Sibylles (devineresses). Fête/saint non indiqué.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du grec sibyllê, « prophétesse »; fête/saint non indiqué ici.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Forme européenne de Sibulla, prêtresse d’Apollon et devineresse de la mythologie grecque.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English8.0%
Sichuan [Szechuan]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sibylle 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #543 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 1 | Sibylle | 170 |
| CH Switzerland | #268 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Sibylle | 77 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 3.9K | — | 6 |
| AT Austria | #886 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 126 | Sibylle | 57 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 6 | Sibylle | 27 |
| US United States | — | 370 | 1 in 899K | 370 | Sibylle | 130 |
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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sybilla of Conversanob. 1085ITnot in their usual nameDuchess of Normandy
- Sibylle d'Anjoub. 1112FRCountess of Flanders (1112-1165)
- Sibylla of Lusignanb. 1198not in their usual nameArmenian queen
- Sibylle of Bavariab. 1489DEPrincess of Bavaria-Munich by birth and by marriage Electress Palatine
- Sibylle of Clevesb. 1512DEGerman noblewoman (1512-1554)
- Sibylle Ursula of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttelb. 1629DE(1629-1671)
- Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1908SEnot in their usual nameSaxe-Coburgen and Gothan and Swedish Royal
- Sibylle Lewitscharoffb. 1954DEGerman author (1954–2023)
- Sibylle Canonicab. 1957CHSwiss actress
- Sibylla of AcerraITnot in their usual nameregent
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.9K | #332 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 370 | #25,575 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2003 | 126 | #799 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1985 | 19 | #188 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 6 | #1,170 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2003 | 2 | #1,098 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2014 | 1 | — |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Sibylle come from?
- sibyl (a pagan female oracle) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Sibylle a male or female name?
- Sibylle is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Sibylle?
- In the etymology graph, Sybil, Sybille and Sibyl are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sibylle?
- A machine transcription gives /zɪbʏlə/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Sibylle mean?
- In German, sibyl
- In which country does Sibylle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Sibylle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sibylle.
- How common is the name Sibylle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 370 people named Sibylle in 2020, about 1 in 899 thousand residents.
- How common is Sibylle compared with other names?
- In Germany, Sibylle is the 543rd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sibylleThe 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, “Sibylle” — the 543rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.