Sybil?

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

I know a little Sybil and she gets 'Sybi' for short - v.v. cute. I'm not sure how well it would age though.

I really like Sybil, although I prefer Sybilla as to me it's more of a name. I did ancient Greek so always think "a sibyl", ie a prophetess.
Love it though, fits the current trend, but I think it wont be over-popular.

Love it - it was on our list, but we are trying to move away form the 'old lady' thing!

Sorry but it screams fawlty towers at me!

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

SYBIIIIIIIIIIIIIWWWWWWLLLLLL

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

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

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.

Me too. Fawlty Towers that is.

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

It's cute.

Love Sybie for nn.

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?

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.

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.

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.

I always thought it was spelled Cybil.

don;t like it, sorry.

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

Sybil is my mum.

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

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

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

I prefer Sylvia, which is kind of similar?

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

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