Sybil

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sybil: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sybil: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #898, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#898highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
2001	#3998
2002	#3409
2007	#5201
2008	#5545
2009	#3936
2010	#4688
2011	#4049
2012	#3681
2013	#2313
2014	#2058
2015	#1783
2016	#1635
2017	#1144
2018	#1649
2019	#1389
2020	#1397
2021	#1351
2022	#1142
2023	#941
2024	#902

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 21 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #902 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3142 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #902 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sybil by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sybil in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000s	18	5 of 10	4
2010s	144	10 of 10	14
2020sbusiest	151	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 30 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sybil appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #898 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Sybil's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#902	40	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#941	37	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1142	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1351	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1397	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1389	22	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1635	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #898, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 40 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Advika · #898, 16y
Halo · #898, 17y
Liah · #898, 25y
Lujain · #898, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Akbar · #898, 29y
Althea · #898, 28y
Angie · #898, 28y
Ania · #898, 29y

Sybil was ranked #898 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sybil and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sybil without appearing here.

Sybil moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3681 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #5691.
Finn Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2313 and #5742.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3681 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2313 and #5742.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2313 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Sybil

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1144 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1649 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Sybil

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sybil went from #3142 to #902 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sybil went from #3142 to #902 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sybil went from #3142 to #902 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sybil went from #3142 to #902 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Sybil

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sybil went from #3142 to #902 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sybil went from #3142 to #902 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sybil went from #3142 to #902 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sybil went from #3142 to #902 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #898 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sybil

Sybil at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sybil by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Sybil at a glance

Sybil by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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