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Sidney
Pronounced /ˈsɪdni/
Rank in 2024
#1,368
Born in 2024
137
Peak year
1918 · #94
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:117 in 2024 (#1,725)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 137 boys were named Sidney, about 1 in every 12,521.
- It peaked in 1918 with 1,879 babies, ranked #94.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 84,056 boys 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.
- 1.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.8Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 26,493 babies, 1.58 per 1,000. Silent: 17,247 babies, 0.84 per 1,000. Boomers: 17,555 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,138 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,698 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,555 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,035 babies, 0.09 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.