Share Info, Save Names, Get our Newsletter and Access Powerful Tools
Sign Up Now or Click Here to Find Out More

Sybil

Pronunciation: SI-bəl (key)
Names related to Sybil: Cybil, Cybill, Sibyl, Sibyll, Sybill
Report inappropriate content |
Favorite This Name

Looking for more names like Sybil? Get Name MatchMaker & more Expert name-finding tools!

Origin of the name Sybil:

Derived from the Latin Sibylla (a fortuneteller, a prophetess). The sibyls, women of ancient Greece and Rome, where mouthpieces of the ancient oracles and seers into the future. In the Middle Ages, they were believed to be receptors of divine revelation; thus Sibyl came into use as an acceptable given name. Var: Sibella.

From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman. Buy the book

Does Sybil sound...

No Way
Definitely
No Way
Definitely
No Way
Definitely
No Way
Definitely
No Way
Definitely
No Way
Definitely
No Way
Definitely
View all ratings

Sibling Names for Sybil...

Do you know any real life Sybils?
What are their siblings named?

Alexander Anastacio Caleb Gavin Grant James Jillian Kathrine Kathryn Lennon Mazie Monroe Ottis Pearl Peter Raymond Raymondo S Sawyer Sebastien Sonja Soren Stephanie Sydil Sylvia
Report inappropriate content

Reader Contributions

Contribute to, or edit, this collection of community wisdom on the name Sybil!

Comments and insights on the name Sybil: | Edit
Share what you know!
Personal experiences with the name Sybil: | Edit
Share what you know!
Nicknames for Sybil: | Edit

Sib, Billie, Sy

Meanings and history of the name Sybil: | Edit

From Latin, meaning "prophet"

Famous real-life people named Sybil: | Edit

"Sybil Dorsett" (real name: Shirley Ardell Mason), American psychiatric patient and commercial artist whose life was documented in 1973 in the book "Sybil", which was dramatized in two films of the same name in 1976 and 2007.
Sybil Ludington, American colonial freedom rider
Sybil Thorndike, English actress
Sybil Ruscoe, English television personality
Sybil Sassoon, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, English heiress and military activist
Lady Sybil Grant, English writer, designer and artist
Sybil Connolly, Irish fashion designer
Sybil Stockdale, American activist
Sybil Andrews, British-born Canadian printmaker
Sybil Leek, British witch and astrologer
Sybil Bauer, American swimmer

Sybil in song, story & screen: | Edit

Lady Sybil Crawley, character on TV series "Downton Abbey"
Sybil Fawlty, long-suffering wife of Basil Fawlty in the BBC comedy series "Fawlty Towers", played by Prunella Scales.
Sybil Trelawny, the Divination teacher in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

Browse Girls' Names

Browse Boys' Names