Cybil

Where Cybil comes from

The dictionaries list Cybil as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek. A 20th century spelling variant of Sybil — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #7,995 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #1,877
    48 babies named Cybil — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1977
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,267.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek. A 20th century spelling variant of Sybil.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Cybil hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.