Sybille
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: a female given name, a less common variant of Sibylle
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sybille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 8.5K
- ATAustria≈1 in 14K
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
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Greek Sibylla 'prophetess'; here linked to children's convulsions.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sybille is read(measured from records)
Sybille 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.
- German61%
a female given name, a less common variant of Sibylle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
aus dem Lateinischen übernomme ner weibl. Vom., der auf griechisch Sibylla, den Namen einer Seherin in Kleinasien, zurückgeht. Er wurde später auf andere
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- French24%
From Greek Sibylla 'prophetess'; here linked to children's convulsions.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du grec Sibylla, nom d’une devineresse et prêtresse d’Apollon dans la mythologie.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du grec *sibylla*, « prophétesse ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- English9.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sybille 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sybille 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 | #581 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 1 | Sybille | 154 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 3.2K | — | 1 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Sybille | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | #930 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Sybille | 54 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 117 | Sybille | 50 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 13 | Sybille | 29 |
| US United States | — | 379 | 1 in 878K | 379 | Sybille | 114 |
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-leipzig-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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Sibylla of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundyb. 1060not in their usual nameDuchess of Burgundy
- Sibylla of Burgundyb. 1126ITnot in their usual nameQueen of Sicily
- Sybille of Bâgéb. 1255FRCountess Consort of Savoy
- Sibylle of Saxonyb. 1515DEnot in their usual nameDuchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (1515-1592)
- Sibylle Ursula of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttelb. 1629DEnot in their usual name(1629-1671)
- Princess Elisabeth Sybille of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachb. 1854DEGerman princess (1854-1908)
- Sybille Schmitzb. 1909DEGerman film and stage actress (1909-1955)
- Sybille Bedfordb. 1911DEwriter (1911–2006)
- Sybille de Selys Longchampsb. 1941BEBelgian noble
- Sybille Bammerb. 1980ATAustrian tennis 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.2K | #1,117 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 379 | #25,135 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2013 | 117 | #1,703 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1984 | 19 | #189 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 6 | #1,170 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 5 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2013 | 1 | #3,309 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2015 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2023 | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Sybille come from?
- From Greek Sibylla 'prophetess'; here linked to children's convulsions. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What does the name Sybille mean?
- In German, a female given name, a less common variant of Sibylle
- What are other forms of the name Sybille?
- In the etymology graph, Sybil, Sibylle and Sibyl are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Sybille a male or female name?
- Sybille 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 Sybille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Sybille in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sybille.
- How common is the name Sybille?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Sybille in 2020, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
- How common is Sybille compared with other names?
- In Germany, Sybille is the 581st most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sybille?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sybilleThe 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, “Sybille” — the 581st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.