Entry № 2210 · Greek origin

Cybill Cybill — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIB-il /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Prophetess (Cybill Shepherd, Moonlighting + Taxi Driver)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "prophetess (cybill shepherd, moonlighting + taxi driver)".

Memoir Cybill Disobedience (2000).

Prophetess (Cybill Shepherd, Moonlighting + Taxi Driver) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Cybill
Transliteration
Cybill
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪb.əl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cybill stands.

Cybill does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cybills before her.

Real people
Cybill Shepherd
American actress.
born 1949
In fiction
Maddie Hayes
Moonlighting.
1985
Jacy Farrow
The Last Picture Show.
1971

Names connected to Cybill.

The number behind Cybill.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cybill reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.