Sibila

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sibila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as sibyl.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 208K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 256K
  • SISlovenia1 in 64K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

828 people, 2022

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

sibyl

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sibila is read(measured from records)

Sibila is one spelling over 3 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.

  • Spanish43%

    Latín sibylla, del griego 'profetisa'; 'consejera divina'

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Portuguese40%

    sibyl

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English7.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sibila in English.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Sibila 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.

Where Sibila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil8281 in 256K1.1KSibila39
AO Angola≈410 est.≈1 in 80K—Sibila3
AR Argentina≈220 est.≈1 in 208K123Sibila33
US United States≈69 est.≈1 in 4.8M348Sibila43
CL Chile≈65 est.≈1 in 280K1Sibila24
UY Uruguay431 in 79K43Sibila17
SI Slovenia331 in 64K33—2
HR Croatia311 in 136K31——

828 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SURS — resident population given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sibila is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Šibila, Síbila

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Šibila

  • Croatian given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Šibila, Сибила, Sibylla, Sibilla

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Šibila

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sibila is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of sībilō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Interlingua, present of sibilar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, ( Lar ), sibile . Sibila. "Sibilas, llamaron los antiguos a unas mujeres sabias, a quienes se atribuyen muchas profecías, Sibilak " Lar . Sibillen profezia jeneralen gañean. EZ Noel 33 (tít.) . Profeta sainduen eta / Sibillen errefauak. Ib. 36. Sibile edo iragarle-emeen artean [...]. Aginterriaren urre-aroa iragartzen zan Sibile-liburuak ari saldurik . Ibiñ Virgil 44.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

12001400160018002000Sibila of Fortia, b. 1350Sibila Jelaska, b. 1938Sibila Petlevski, b. 1964Sibila Marques, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 38 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Sibila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010348#58,337
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020319#66,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000266#68,973
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—123—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—11#18,659
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Sibila mean, and where does it come from?
sibyl Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Sibila a male or female name?
Sibila 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 Sibila have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 828 people named Sibila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sibila.
Where is Sibila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sibila is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sibila?
In Brazil, the national register counted 828 people named Sibila in 2022, about 1 in 256 thousand residents.

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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, “Sibila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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