Syble
Syble was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 5,541 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Syble and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 73 and 87.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Syble by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Syble?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,055, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
225 babies in 1920, the peak
Syble peaked in 1920, when 225 girls were given it, #450 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #15,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,327 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,492 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,059 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,199 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 6 | #7,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,094 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,928 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,483 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,236 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,673 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,529 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,447 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,235 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,241 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,936 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,867 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,415 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,579 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 46 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 83 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 76 | #1,019 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 74 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 70 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 80 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 92 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 106 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 81 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 110 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 122 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 128 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1937 | 127 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 145 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1935 | 128 | #569 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 116 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 110 | #623 | 0.11 |
| 1932 | 145 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1931 | 146 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 155 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 141 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 195 | #496 | 0.17 |
| 1927 | 172 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1926 | 193 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1925 | 209 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1924 | 195 | #512 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 194 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1922 | 208 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 201 | #491 | 0.16 |
| 1920 | 225 | #450 | 0.19 |
| 1919 | 218 | #446 | 0.19 |
| 1918 | 184 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 73 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 92 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 87 | #720 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 45 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 34 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 28 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 24 | #897 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 25 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 18 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,031 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 16 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 19 | #850 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,068 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,915 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 15 | #1,004 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,940 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,563 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Syble a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Syble has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Syble: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Syble, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 21% of the 5,541 Americans ever recorded as Syble. The median Syble alive today is 81 years old; half are between 73 and 87.
The 2020 Census counted 1,467 people named Syble (1,466 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,743 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 570 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 494 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 71 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Syble born?
The states with the most babies named Syble are Texas, Alabama and Arkansas, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 938 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Alabama | 636 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Arkansas | 516 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Georgia | 444 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Mississippi | 424 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Oklahoma | 337 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Louisiana | 296 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| South Carolina | 165 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 131 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 126 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Syble is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Syble is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 5.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Syble with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,837 babies since 1880, Syble is the most given (95% 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 Syble
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 Syble and names like it
- Compare Syble and SibleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sSyble peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Syble since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Syble.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Syble alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with SMost given first.