Sibel
Sibel was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,923 among girls’ names; 259 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sibel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sibel mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Sibel is “a female given name meaning prophetess or oracle”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sibel?
#16,923 among girls’ names, 2025
Sibel fell from #12,847 in 2015 to #16,923 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
13 babies in 1988, the peak
Sibel peaked in 1988, when 13 girls were given it, #6,228 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,923 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,282 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,266 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,058 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,339 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,857 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,606 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,782 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,905 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,726 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,847 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,150 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,300 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,183 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,438 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,793 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,451 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,126 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,635 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,845 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,723 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,072 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,498 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,674 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,532 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,416 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,443 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,561 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,241 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,140 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,662 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,228 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,983 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,674 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,925 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,318 | 3.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,463 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sibel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sibel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sibel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sibel, and how old are they?
An estimated 255 Americans named Sibel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 11 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 665 people named Sibel (660 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 25,312 babies since 1880, Sibel is the third most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 180 babies (2.8%), again the third most given.
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 Sibel
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 Sibel and names like it
- Compare Sibel and SybilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSibel peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sibel since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Sibel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Sibel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sibel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.