Sybila
Just 116 Polish women carry it, so most people here will never meet one. The name comes from Greek and names the sibyl, the prophetess of the ancient world.
Sybila Pronunciation
Sybila is pronounced sih-BEE-lah (/sɨˈbila/).
What Sybila means
Where Sybila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sybila comes from Greek. The word sibylla named the prophetic women of the ancient world, seers who spoke for the gods at oracle sites like Cumae and Erythrae. From that word the name reaches Polish with a plain meaning: prorokini, wieszczka, a prophetess.
The Sibyls were not minor figures in old Europe. Rome kept the Sibylline Books and consulted them in times of danger. Painters and poets returned to these women for centuries, which kept the name alive far from its Greek start.
Poland has its own Sibyl. Around 1801 in Puławy, Izabela Czartoryska raised the Świątynia Sybilli, a temple modelled on the ancient shrine at Tivoli. It became the first Polish museum. A girl named Sybila shares her name with that building.
The meaning stays close to the surface. Sybila means a woman who sees what is coming. On a class register the name is uncommon, and it reads at once. Prorokini, wieszczka.
How many people are named Sybila
1 in 194343 women in Poland is named Sybila. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3149 among female names.
Sybila as a middle name
Sybila is a first name for 116 women in Poland and a middle name for another 41, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1084th, between Summer (41) and Taida (41).
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#1082 Molly41
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#1083 Summer41
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#1084 Sybila41
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#1085 Taida41
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#1086 Theresia41