Sibel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name meaning prophetess or oracle
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sibˈæl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sibel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 482(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.6K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 6.8K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 482 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 female given name meaning prophetess or oracle
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sibel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #109 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 482 | #99 | Sibel | 123 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Sibel | 7 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 1.8K | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 6 | Sibel | 25 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 26 | Sibel | 7 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 96 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #108 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Sibel | 16 |
| US United States | — | 665 | 1 in 500K | 660 | Sibel | 146 |
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 tr-tuik-child-stats register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Sibel 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 Turkish, l. Buğday başağı. 2. Henüz yere düşmemiş yağmur damlası.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Sibel Siberb. 1960TRPrime Minister of Northern Cyprus (born 1960)
- Sibel Canb. 1970TRTurkish singer (born 1970)
- Sibel Edmondsb. 1970USAmerican whistleblower
- Sibel Tüzünb. 1971TRTurkish singer-songwriter (born 1971)
- Sibilb. 1978TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer of Armenian ancestry
- Sibel Kekillib. 1980DEGerman actress
- Sibel Şimşekb. 1984TRTurkish weightlifter (born 1984)
- Sibel Gülerb. 1984TRTurkish taekwondo athlete (born 1984)
- Sibel Özkanb. 1988TRTurkish weightlifter (born 1988)
- Esra Sibel Tezkanb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
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 62 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.8K | #2,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 660 | #16,819 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2022 | 96 | #1,861 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 26 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2016 | 6 | #1,211 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #16,819 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2022 | 1 | #3,511 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2004 | — | #99 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Sibel mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name meaning prophetess or oracle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sibel?
- A machine transcription gives /sibˈæl/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Sibel a male or female name?
- Sibel 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.
- In which country does Sibel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 170 thousand people named Sibel in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sibel.
- How common is the name Sibel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 665 people named Sibel in 2020, about 1 in 500 thousand residents.
- How common is Sibel compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sibel is the 109th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sibel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sibelThe 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, “Sibel” — the 109th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.