Cybil
Cybil was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 593 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cybil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cybil mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cybil is “a female given name from Ancient Greek. A 20th century spelling variant of Sybil.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cybil?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,856, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1975, the peak
Cybil peaked in 1975, when 48 girls were given it, #1,884 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,856 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,414 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,851 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,592 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,317 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,081 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,195 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,895 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,255 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,071 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #9,692 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,221 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,380 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,669 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,254 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,740 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,077 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,318 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,986 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,900 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,309 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,927 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,442 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,977 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,220 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,984 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,873 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,209 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,823 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,410 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,564 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,353 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,657 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,505 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,538 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,380 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,612 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,481 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,361 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,992 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,807 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,654 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,291 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,105 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,884 | 32.9 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,033 | 27.9 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,888 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,463 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,112 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,228 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cybil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cybil has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cybil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cybil, and how old are they?
An estimated 571 Americans named Cybil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 25 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 593 people named Cybil (592 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 728 babies since 1880, Cybil is the most given (81% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cybil
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cybil and names like it
- Compare Cybil and CybillBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCybil peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cybil since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Cybil: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Cybil.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Cybil alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.