Sybil comes from the sibyls, the revered women of the ancient Greek and Roman world who spoke prophecy as oracles of the gods.
A Victorian favourite lately back in the spotlight — think Lady Sybil of Downton Abbey — it has an elegant, old-world charm.
Thoughtful and a little mystical, Sybil is a name that seems to know things.
Sybil 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sybil reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.