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Sybil?

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monetinjanuary · 24/01/2010 12:51

What do you think of Sybil for a girl? Honest opinions needed.

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Momdeguerre · 30/01/2010 17:29

Like it and think the connection to FT is quite cool.

nooka · 30/01/2010 17:19

Umm Joan Greenwood. Now she was a femme fatale! I hear it in a FT screetch too. I prefer the sound of Sybilla/Sibilla.

passionberry · 30/01/2010 14:40

I wouldn't pick it myself but I do quite like it - there is a character in a book that I love (set in 1940s) called Sybil - kind of Second World War vibe.

BalloonSlayer · 30/01/2010 14:30

I think Joan Greenwood's character was Sibella though. Lovely name but baaaaaad character. "ooh Louis..."

JoeyBettany · 30/01/2010 14:20

Sybilla's the heroine of 'My Brilliant Career' too, a lovely book for adolescents.

Toffeepopple · 27/01/2010 18:49

I prefer Sylvia, which is kind of similar?

Horton · 25/01/2010 19:40

I really really love it. And Sybilla is gorgeous too.

belgo · 25/01/2010 19:22

sounds like the name of a hamster to me. No idea why.

choosyfloosy · 25/01/2010 19:21

Glamorous to me because of Sybilla in Kind Hearts and Coronets (swoon at Joan Greenwood). Like both Sybil and Sybilla.

lucybrad · 25/01/2010 19:19

Sybil is my mum.

mathanxiety · 25/01/2010 14:44

Lovely, timeless, and really, FT was a long, long time ago.

PureAsTheColdDrivenSnow · 24/01/2010 23:05

I always thought it was spelled Cybil.

don;t like it, sorry.

NotAPollyanna · 24/01/2010 23:03

I will forever think of the Sybil with 16 different personalities and her story but that is because I was so freaked out by it. But names are subjective and that is my association not yours. I do like the Greek version.

gaelicsheep · 24/01/2010 22:53

As long as you don't have a son called Basil it'd be fine I think. How about Cecily? That's a similar type of name.

sybilfaulty · 24/01/2010 22:47

I think it's a lovely name

I don't know any real life Sybils, altho I am called it by certain friends, but I do know a very glamorous lady in her 50s called Sybilla. Both of us get called Sybs, which is lovely. Far nicer than my real name.

I'd say go for it - really classic and now quite uncommon.

Wolfblass · 24/01/2010 22:39

Not my cup of tea

But then i think Sybil - not an old lady name as such but a prim 50's housewife, not sure why?

momofnearly2 · 24/01/2010 22:18

It's cute.

Love Sybie for nn.

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pranma · 24/01/2010 20:33

my m-i-l was Sybil and she was a lovely lady-never met another

PuppyMonkey · 24/01/2010 13:55

Me too. Fawlty Towers that is.

Clary · 24/01/2010 13:54

I know a small Sybil. Her mum gets asked "Oh, is it a family name?" She doesn't care tho.

I love it. It suits the one I know - she's a bit of tomboy and very bright and sparky.

I don't think the FT ref matters - a sitcom made 30 years ago? Nahhh.

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monetinjanuary · 24/01/2010 13:54

Is it really an old lady name? Apart from Fawlty Towers (which doesn't put me off) I've never met anybody called Sybil.

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Paolosgirl · 24/01/2010 13:53

SYBIIIIIIIIIIIIIWWWWWWLLLLLL

No, it'll forever be Fawlty Towers for me.

LetThereBeRock · 24/01/2010 13:52

Fawlty Towers comes to mind. I don't like it.

avaj · 24/01/2010 13:51

Sorry but it screams fawlty towers at me!