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Sydney
Rank in 2024
#4,196
Born in 2024
25
Peak year
1916 · #385
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,097 in 2024 (#288)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 25 boys were named Sydney, about 1 in every 68,613.
- It peaked in 1916 with 205 babies, ranked #385.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 9,383 boys 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.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,765 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Silent: 1,509 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,231 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 607 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,105 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,379 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 476 babies, 0.02 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.