Sibylla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sibylla is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Sweden. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek of historical use; the Latin form of Sibyl.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from Ancient Greek of historical use; the Latin form of Sibyl.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sibylla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 830 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 354 | — |
| FI Finland | — | 63 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 31 | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 6 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sibylla is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Sibylla kommer ursprungligen från grekiskan med betydelsen ’spåkvinna’. Via latinet började det användas som egennamn i olika länder under tidig medeltid. I den rikssvenska almanackan 20 oktober, efter den tyskfödda prinsessan Sibylla (1908–72), mor till kung Carl xvi Gustaf.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In grc, Greek-Latin 'prophetess'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latin, The sibyl (any of various ancient Mediterranean prophetesses, but most often the Cumaean Sibyl)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a female given name, equivalent to English Sibyl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, sibyl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sybil Marie von Sachsen-Weimarb. 1563DEnot in their usual name(1563-1569)
- Sibylla of Anhaltb. 1564DEDuchess consort of Württemberg.
- Sibylle Elisabeth of Württembergb. 1584FRnot in their usual nameGerman princess
- Maria Sibylla of Nassau-Saarbrückenb. 1628DEGerman countess (1628-1699)
- Maria Sibylla Merianb. 1647DEGerman-Dutch entomologist, botanist, naturalist, scientific illustrator, graphic artist, painter, and lepidopterologist (1647-1717)
- Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburgb. 1675DEnot in their usual nameGerman princess (1675-1733)
- Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1908SESaxe-Coburgen and Gothan and Swedish Royal
- Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöldb. 1938SEnot in their usual nameSwedish princess; elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1938–2026)
- Sibylla Buddb. 1977AUAustralian actress
- Sibylla Deenb. 1982AUAustralian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 830 | #1,940 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 354 | #2,518 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 163 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 162 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 161 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 161 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 161 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 159 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 159 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 159 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 158 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 158 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sibylla mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Ancient Greek of historical use; the Latin form of Sibyl. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Sibylla a male or female name?
- Sibylla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Sibylla?
- In the etymology graph, Sybil, Sibylle and Sybille are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sibylla have the most bearers?
- Sibylla is most frequently recorded in Sweden.
What do you want to know about Sibylla?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sibyllaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sibylla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.