as a First Name
Variant spelling of Sidney. (It was a medieval practice to write y for i, for greater clarity since i was easily confused with other letters.) Although traditionally a boy's name, it suddenly came into fashion as a girl's name at the beginning of the 21st century and, in this form, is now used more frequently for girls than boys in England and North America.
| 1,102nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,015
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 147,592
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Utah
- has the most people named Sydney per capita
- 2000
- marked the height of its popularity
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