Entry № 10215 · Greek origin

Sybilla Sybilla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sih-BIL-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Queen of Jerusalem (Crusader)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Greek)

A name that means "queen of jerusalem (crusader)".

Featured in William of Tyre's chronicle.

Crusader queen of Jerusalem.

The name in its native script.

Sybilla
Transliteration
Sybilla
Pronunciation
/ sɪˈbɪl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sybilla stands.

Sybilla 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.

Sybillas before her.

Real people
Sybilla of Jerusalem
Crusader queen of Jerusalem.
1160 – 1190
Sybilla of Anjou
Countess of Flanders.
c. 1112 – 1165
In fiction
Sybilla
Featured in Kingdom of Heaven.
2005

Names connected to Sybilla.

The number behind Sybilla.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sybilla reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.