Sybella
Sybella was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 231 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 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 Sybella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sybella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,006, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2017, the peak
Sybella peaked in 2017, when 20 girls were given it, #6,262 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #11,006 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,976 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,605 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,319 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,987 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,394 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,475 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,262 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,034 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,882 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #7,267 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,984 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,349 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,310 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,153 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,594 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,007 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,486 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,528 | 5.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,778 | 2.8 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,929 | 4.5 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,751 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sybella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sybella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sybella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sybella, and how old are they?
An estimated 220 Americans named Sybella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 188 people named Sybella (188 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 462 babies since 1880, Sybella is the most given (50% 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 Sybella
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 Sybella and names like it
- Compare Sybella and SybillaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSybella peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sybella since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Sybella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sybella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.