Sybil (given name)
Appearance
![]() The Sibyl, engraved by Francis Scott King from the painting by Frederick Stuart Church. | |
Gender | female |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Greek |
Meaning | "sibyl" |
Other names | |
Related names | Cybill, Pille, Sibby, Sibil, Sibilia, Sibilla, Sibyl, Sibyll, Sibylle, Sibylla, Sybbie, Sybill, Sybilla, Sybille, Zabel |
Sybil or Sibyl is a feminine given name of
Jesus Christ.[1][2][3][4] It became more common in the 1800s. Usage of the name recently increased due to a character on the popular TV series Downton Abbey.[5][6][7] Sibylle, a French version of the name, is considered a bon chic bon genre name more likely to be given to girls from upper class French families.[8][9]
In Arabic Sibil can be a variant of the Arabic name سبيل in ABC Sabil/Sebil it means Path or road or also fountain[10] It is usually used as a feminine name in the Arab world.[11]
Sibil
- Sibil Pektorosoğlu (born 1974, Armenian-Turkish pop singer
- Zabel Sibil Asadour (1863–1934), Armenian poet, writer, publisher and philanthropist
Sybil
A–F
- Sybil Andrews (1898–1992), English-Canadian artist, specialised in printmaking, best known for her modernist linocuts
- Sibyl Anikeef (1896–1997), American photographer
- Sybil Arundale (1879–1965), English stage and film actress, born Sybil Kelly
- Sybil Atteck (1911–1975), pioneering Trinidadian painter known for her work in watercolor
- Megan Sybil Baker(born 1954), pseudonym of Linnea Sinclair, American writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Romance
- Sybil Bauer (1903–1927), American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder
- Sybil Mary Collings Beaumontor Sibyl Hathaway DBE (1884–1974), Dame of Sark from 1927 until her death
- Sybil Bennett (1904–1956), Canadian politician
- Sybil Moseley Bingham (1792–1848), American teacher in the Hawaiian Islands
- Sybil Brand (1899–2004), American philanthropist and activist
- Sybil G. Brinton, author of the novel Old Friends and New Fancies (1913)
- Sybil Brintrup (1954–2020), Chilean conceptual artist, working with traditional and digital media
- Sybil le Brocquy (1892–1973), Irish playwright, patron of the arts and conservationist
- Sybil Buck(born 1972), American musician, yoga instructor and fashion model
- Ethel Sybil Burwellor Ethel Turner (1870–1958), English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer
- Sybil Campbell OBE (1889–1977), the first woman to be appointed as a stipendiary magistrate in Britain
- Sybil Carmen (1896–1929), American actress, dancer, and Ziegfeld girl
- Sybil Chaplin, known as Judith Chaplin (1939–1993), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom
- Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley CBE (1894–1989), British socialite, Chief Staff Officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) during World War II
- Sybil Christopher (1929–2013), formerly known as Sybil Burton, Welsh actress and theatre director
- Sybil Claiborne (1923–1992), novelist, short story writer, pacifist, member of the Board of the War Resisters League
- Sybil Colefax(1874–1950), English interior designer and decorator, and socialite
- Sybil Connolly (1921–1998), Dublin-based Irish fashion designer known for creating fashion from Irish textiles
- Sybil of Conversano(died 1103), wealthy Norman heiress, Duchess of Normandy by marriage to Robert Curthose
- Sybil Cookson (1890–1963), journalist and writer of romantic novels
- Sybil Cooper (1900–1970), British physiologist
- Sybil Craig OAM (1901–1989), Australian painter
- Sybil Danning (born 1952), Austrian-American actress, model, and film producer
- Sybil Isabel Dorsettor Shirley Ardell Mason (1923–1998), American art teacher reputed to have dissociative identity disorder
- Sybil Dunlop(1889–1968), British jewellery designer, best known work in the late Arts and Crafts style
- Sybil Elgar (1914–2007), the first special-education teacher for those with autism in the United Kingdom
- Sybil Evers (1904–1963), English singer and actress
- Sybil B. G. Eysenck (1927–2020), personality psychologist and the widow of the psychologist Hans Eysenck
- Sybil Fane, Countess of Westmorland (1871–1910), born Lady Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine, was a British aristocrat and socialite
- Sybil Flory (1920–2017), pharmacist, seamstress and teacher
- Jean Sybil La Fontaine(born 1931), British anthropologist and emeritus professor of the London School of Economics
G–M
- Sybil Gibson (1908–1995), American painter
- Sybil Mullen Glover (1908–1995), British artist known for her landscape and marine paintings
- Sybil Niden Goldrich, consumer advocate in the fight for women's health relating to breast implants
- Sybil Gordon (1902–1981), English singer and actress
- Lady Sybil Grant (1879–1955), British writer and artist
- Lady Sybil Grey OBE (1882–1966), British philanthropist and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse
- Sybil Grey (1860–1939), born Ellen Sophia Taylor, was a British singer and actress during the Victorian era
- Sybil Grove, English actress
- Sybil B. Harrington (1908–1998), American philanthropist
- Sibyl Hathaway DBE (1884–1974), Dame of Sark from 1927 until her death
- Sibyl Heijnen (1961), Dutch visual artist, part of the second generation after 1960
- Dulcie Sybil Holland(1913–2000), Australian composer and music educator
- Sybil Holmes (1889–1979), American politician, the first woman elected to the Massachusetts Senate
- Sibyl Marvin Huse (1866-1939), French-born American author of religious books and teacher of Christian Science
- Sybil Joyce Hylton MBE (1913–2006), Caymanian community volunteer and social advocate
- Sybil Irving MBE (1897–1973), founder and controller of the Australian Women's Army Service during World War II
- Sybil Henley Jacobson, (1881–1953), Canadian painter
- Sybil Jason (1927–2011), South African-born, American child film actress
- Sybil Jefferies(stage name Sweet Sable), American house and R&B vocalist best known for her work during the 1990s
- Sybil Kent Kane (1856–1946), American socialite, prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age
- Sybil Kathigasu GM (1899–1948), Malayan Eurasian nurse who supported the resistance during the Japanese occupation of Malaya
- Sybil Kein (1939–2022), Louisiana Creole poet, playwright, scholar, and musician
- Sibyl Kempson (born 1973), American playwright and performer
- Sibyll-Anka Klotz (born 1961), German politician
- Sybil Leek (1917–1982), English witch, astrologer, occult author and self-proclaimed psychic
- May Sybil Leslie (1887–1937), English chemist who worked with Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford
- Sybil Lewis (surgeon), OSS (1874–1918), early Scottish surgeon who served with distinction in Serbia during the First World War
- Sybil Lewis (actress), actress in the United States
- Sybil Ludington (1761–1839), heroine of the American Revolutionary War
- Sybil Lupp (1916–1994), New Zealand mechanic, motor-racing driver, garage proprietor and motor vehicle dealer
- Sybil Lynch(born 1965), American R&B and pop singer–songwriter
- Sybil Marshall (1913–2005), British writer, novelist, social historian, broadcaster, folklorist, educationalist
- Dame Elvira Sibyl Marie Laughton Mathews, DBE(1888–1959), British military officer and administrator
- Sybil I. McLaughlin MBE (1928–2022), first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands
- Sybil C. Mobley(1925–2015), Dean Emerita of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) School of Business and Industry
- Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (1903–1971), German non-fiction writer
- Sybil Montagu, Prioress of Amesbury, daughter of John de Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu and his wife Margaret de Monthermer
- Sybil Morgan (1898–1983), British philatelist on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
- Sibyl Morrison (1895–1961), Australian lawyer
- Sybil Morrison (1893–1984), British pacifist, suffragist and activist with several other radical causes
- Sybil Moses (1939–2009), American lawyer and judge
- Sybil Mulcahy (born 1973), Irish journalist and presenter
- Josephine and Sybil Mulvany, New Zealand weavers
N–Z
- Sybil Neville-Rolfe OBE (1885–1955), social hygienist, founder of the Eugenics Society
- Sybil Fenton Newallor Queenie Newall (1854–1929), English archer who won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
- Sybil Robson Orr (born 1962), American film producer
- Sybil (wife of Pain fitzJohn), Anglo-Norman noblewoman in 12th-century England
- Daphne Margaret Sybil Desiree Parkor Daphne Park CMG, OBE, FRSA (1921–2010), British spy
- Sybil Phoenix OBE (née Marshall; born 1927), British community worker of Guyanese birth
- Sybil Plumlee (1911–2012), American teacher, caseworker, and police officer in Portland, Oregon
- Sibyl Pool (1901–1973), politician from Alabama
- Sybil Pye (1879–1958), self-trained British bookbinder famed for her inlay Art Deco leather bindings
- Tabitha Sybil Quaye (born 1938), Ghanaian politician and a former member of parliament for Takoradi
- Sybil of the Rhine(1098–1179), aka Hildegard of Bingen, German Benedictine abbess and polymath, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and medical writer and practitioner
- Sybil Sassoon(1894–1989), British officer during World War 2
- Sybil M. Rock(1909–1981), pioneer in mass spectrometry and computing
- Sybil Ruscoe (born 1960), British radio and television presenter
- Sybil Sanderson(1864–1903), American operatic soprano during the Parisian Belle Époque
- Sybil Seely (1900–1984), silent film actress who worked with Buster Keaton
- Sybil P. Seitzinger, oceanographer and climate scientist at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
- Sybil Shainwald (born 1928), American attorney specializing in women's health law, activist for women's health reform
- Sybil Shearer (1912–2005), American choreographer, dancer and writer
- Sybil Shepherd(born 1950), American actress, singer and former model
- Sybil Sheridan (born 1953), writer and British Reform rabbi
- Sybil Smith (born 1966), American former collegiate swimmer
- Sybil Smolova, Czech-Austrian dancer and film actress of the silent era
- Sybil Stockdale (1924–2015), American campaigner for families of Americans missing in South East Asia
- Sybil Tawse (1886–1971), English artist and illustrator
- Sybil Temtchine, American actress
- Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, DBE (1857–1941), British suffragette, feminist, and philanthropist
- Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), English actress who toured internationally in Shakespearean productions
- Ethel Sibyl Turner(1870–1958), English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer
- Sybil Ward (1894–1977), one of the first female lawyers in Delaware
- Sybil Werden (1924–2007), German dancer and actress during the 1950s
- Sybil Wettasinghe (1927–2020), children's book writer and an illustrator in Sri Lanka
- Sybil Whigham, (1871–1954), Scottish golfer
- Sibyl Taite Widdows (1876–1960), British Scientist, member of the Chemistry department at the London School of Medicine for Women for 40 years
- Sibyl Wilbur (1871–1946), American journalist, suffragist, and author of a biography of Mary Baker Eddy
- Sybil Wolfram (1931–1993), English philosopher and writer of German Jewish origin
- Sybil Yazzie (1917–1918), Diné (Navajo) painter
Fictional characters called Sybil include:
- Sibyl, a character in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Sybil Barton, a character in 1941 American comedy film Angels with Broken Wings, played by Binnie Barnes
- Sybil Birling, a character in the play An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
- Sybil Branson, a character in Downton Abbey played by Jessica Brown Findlay, or her daughter, nicknamed "Sybbie"
- Sybil Dvorak, a mutant supervillain character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics
- Sybil Fawlty, a character played by Prunella Scales in the BBC TV series Fawlty Towers
- Sybil Pandemik, a character in Sam & Max
- Sybil Stone, a character played by Diane Keaton in the film The Family Stone
- Sybill Trelawney, a character in the Harry Potter series
- Sibyl Vane, a character in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Lady Sybil Vimes, a character in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
See also
- The Adventures of Sybil Brent (German: Das Abenteuer der Sibylle Brant), a 1925 German silent film
- Eli and Sybil Jones House, a historic house at Maine State Route 3 and Dirigo Road in South China, Maine
- Sybil Brand Institute, disused women's jail in Monterey Park, Los Angeles County, California
- The Morning Show with Sybil & Martin, a morning magazine show that aired on TV3 (Ireland)
- Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Prize, annual award by the German Studies Association (GSA)
Notes
- ISBN 1-55002-507-4p. 41
- ^ "Meaning, origin and history of the name Sibyl". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
- ^ Uckelman, Sara L. (September 2019) [7-3], "Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited", Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 67 (3): 153–159
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "Sybil - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity". Nameberry. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- ^ "Sybil: Baby Name of the Day". Appellation Mountain. 25 August 2016. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- ^ Sandel, Abby (19 May 2022). "Downton Abbey Names: Marigold, Edith, Atticus". appellationmountain.net. Appellation Mountain (blog). Retrieved 21 May 2022.
- ^ Delbosc, Isabelle (16 October 2015). "RICH OR POOR? WHAT THEIR FIRST NAMES SAY ABOUT THE FRENCH". medium.com. Medium. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Coulmont, Baptiste (7 July 2013). "Prénoms et mentions au bac, édition 2013". coulmont.com. Coulmont.com (self-published website). Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "معنى أسم سبيل Sabil". معاني الأسماء العربية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ SALEH, Rana. الموسع في الأسماء العربية ومعانيها2 (in Arabic). Amman, Jordan. p. 243.
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