Sibilla
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: sibyl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/siβiʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sibilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 180K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- ITItaly≈1 in 59K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dal greco sibylla, ‘profetessa, indovina’; nome accolto in uso cristiano.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sibilla is read(measured from records)
Sibilla is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish41%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sibilla in Spanish.
- English30%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sibilla in English.
- Italian12%
Dal greco sibylla, ‘profetessa, indovina’; nome accolto in uso cristiano.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
var. meridional de Siviglia; também ligado a Sibylla
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Siviglia
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
sibyl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.6%
Variante de Sibylle.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sibilla 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Sibilla | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 32 | Sibilla | 23 |
| AR Argentina | 252 | 1 in 180K | 252 | Sibilla | 36 |
| US United States | 206 | 1 in 1.6M | 206 | Sibilla | 111 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 682K | 8 | — | 2 |
| CL Chile | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 351K | 1 | Sibilla | 21 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Sibilla | 1 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Sibilla 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.
Profetessa
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Gaspare Sibillab. 1723ITItalian sculptor
- Franco Sibillab. 1923ITItalian priest and theologian (1923-2008)
- Domingo Sibillab. 1935CLChilean basketball player
- Angelo SibillaITItalian architect
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 252 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 206 | #89,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 187 | #102,571 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 164 | #101,654 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- How do you pronounce Sibilla?
- A machine transcription gives /siβiʎa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Sibilla mean?
- In Italian, sibyl
- In which country does Sibilla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Sibilla in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sibilla.
- How common is the name Sibilla?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 252 people named Sibilla, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sibilla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sibillaThe 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, “Sibilla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.