# Sydney (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sydney/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | [ˈsɪd̥ni], 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Syd |
| Variant spellings | Sidney, Sidny, Cidnee, Cidney, Cydni, Cydnee, Cydnie, Cydney, Sidnee, Sidneigh, Sidni, Sidnie, Cidny, Sydneigh |
| US babies named this | 187,700 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,404 / 178,296 (95% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,128, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,974 | 65 |
| 2012 | 3,456 | 78 |
| 2013 | 3,177 | 98 |
| 2014 | 2,855 | 109 |
| 2015 | 2,660 | 122 |
| 2016 | 2,322 | 135 |
| 2017 | 2,013 | 146 |
| 2018 | 1,757 | 164 |
| 2019 | 1,535 | 197 |
| 2020 | 1,246 | 241 |
| 2021 | 1,231 | 249 |
| 2022 | 1,169 | 272 |
| 2023 | 1,003 | 307 |
| 2024 | 1,104 | 288 |
| 2025 | 873 | 348 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 66 | 2,051 |
| 2012 | 53 | 2,410 |
| 2013 | 51 | 2,454 |
| 2014 | 50 | 2,511 |
| 2015 | 50 | 2,522 |
| 2016 | 47 | 2,656 |
| 2017 | 40 | 3,000 |
| 2018 | 36 | 3,229 |
| 2019 | 40 | 3,044 |
| 2020 | 31 | 3,559 |
| 2021 | 38 | 3,169 |
| 2022 | 31 | 3,680 |
| 2023 | 37 | 3,279 |
| 2024 | 26 | 4,179 |
| 2025 | 20 | 5,021 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 159 | 307 |
| 2012 | 152 | 320 |
| 2013 | 118 | 378 |
| 2014 | 120 | 373 |
| 2015 | 142 | 330 |
| 2016 | 107 | 415 |
| 2017 | 111 | 396 |
| 2018 | 122 | 370 |
| 2019 | 100 | 424 |
| 2020 | 85 | 472 |
| 2021 | 101 | 431 |
| 2022 | 99 | 427 |
| 2023 | 104 | 400 |
| 2024 | 124 | 355 |
| 2025 | 151 | 295 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,087 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,119 |
| 2013 | 33 | 882 |
| 2014 | 35 | 854 |
| 2015 | 33 | 903 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,022 |
| 2017 | 28 | 1,042 |
| 2018 | 28 | 1,013 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,253 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 13 | 1,782 |
| 2022 | 31 | 967 |
| 2023 | 22 | 1,243 |
| 2024 | 34 | 924 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1,276 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 悉尼, 西德尼, 悉妮, 西德妮
- Latvian: Sidnijs, Sidneja
- Portuguese: Sidney, Sídnei, Sidnei, Sydney
- Russian: Си́дни, Си́дней, Сидне́й
- Arabic: سِيدْنِي, سِدْنِي
- Armenian: Սիդնեյ
- Bulgarian: Си́дни
- Dutch: Sydney
- Esperanto: Sidnejo
- Finnish: Sydney
- French: Sydney
- Georgian: სიდნეი
- German: Sydney
- Greek: Σύδνεϋ, Σίδνεϊ
- Hebrew: סִידְנִי
- Hindi: सिडनी
- Hungarian: Sydney
- Irish: Sidní
- Italian: Sydney
- Japanese: シドニー

## People named Sydney

- Sydney Sweeney, American actress (born 1997)
- Sydney Pollack, American film director, producer and actor (1934-2008)
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, American hurdler and sprinter (born 1999)
- Sydney Chaplin, American film and theater actor (1926-2009)
- Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (1888–1970)
- Sydney Greenstreet, British-American actor (1879-1954)
- Sydney Leroux, Canadian-born American soccer player
- Sydney Chaplin, English actor (1885-1965)
- Sydney Smith, English wit, writer, Anglican cleric (1771-1845)
- Sydney Chandler, American actress
- Sydney Lohmann, German association football player
- Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.