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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Sybil

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#1,426

up +141 places

2025 births

152

up +16 births

All-time births

20,360

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
541 births
Best rank
#282
in 1919
First recorded
1881
#815 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1944
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
145 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1921541#285Peak
  2. 1919515#282
  3. 1920483#296
  4. 1924479#305
  5. 1922463#298

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #282 in 1919 · peak births 541 in 1921

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

5 boys · 20,360 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Sybil has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.