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Sidney

Pronounced /ˈsɪdni/

Rank in 2024
#1,725
Born in 2024
117
Peak year
2000 · #265
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:137 in 2024 (#1,368)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 117 girls were named Sidney, about 1 in every 13,788.
  • It peaked in 2000 with 1,221 babies, ranked #265.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 24,680 girls have been named Sidney since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Sidney per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.4
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,065 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 1,396 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,589 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 597 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,349 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Z: 12,936 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,441 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English *Sīdaneġ, the name of a place in Surrey, from sīd (“wide”) + eġ (“island”).

  • A male or female given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈsɪdni/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Sidney, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyCooling

    Sydney

    Rank
    #288
    Born '24
    1,097
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20002024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Cydney

    Rank
    #7,847
    Born '24
    14
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19982024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Sydnee

    Rank
    #8,985
    Born '24
    11
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20032024