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Sydney
Rank in 2024
#288
Born in 2024
1,097
Peak year
2000 · #23
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:25 in 2024 (#4,196)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,097 girls were named Sydney, about 1 in every 1,471.
- It peaked in 2000 with 10,243 babies, ranked #23.
- It first shows up in the records in 1886.
- 177,413 girls have been named Sydney since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Sydney per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 1.2Millennials1981–96
- 3.9Gen Z1997–12
- 1.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 594 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 1,769 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,803 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,729 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 33,979 babies, 1.20 per 1,000. Gen Z: 114,440 babies, 3.94 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 22,062 babies, 1.09 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
For the surname and given name, see Sidney. The cities in Australia and Canada are named after British politician Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733–1800).
- (countable) A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Sydney, CC BY-SA 4.0.