Sydney
Sydney is ranked 288th among girls in 2024 (1,097 births). Its best rank was 23rd, in 1999–2002.
- Rank in 2024
- #288up 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0970.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 200010,243 births
- Best rank
- #23first in 1999
- Since 1886
- 186,796people given the name
The story in the numbers
177,413 girls have been named Sydney in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 10,243 births — 0.56% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 109 → 288).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 43%. It has spent 80 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 20 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 9,383 boys have also been given it, 5.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 14 | |
| 1890s | 23 | |
| 1900s | 84 | |
| 1910s | 265 | |
| 1920s | 306 | |
| 1930s | 798 | |
| 1940s | 1,512 | |
| 1950s | 1,522 | |
| 1960s | 1,347 | |
| 1970s | 931 | |
| 1980s | 4,587 | |
| 1990s | 55,756 | |
| 2000s | 76,442 | |
| 2010s | 28,081 | |
| 2020s | 5,745 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Sydney was the 23rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2000 were Emily, Hannah, Madison, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Sydney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Destinypeak 2000
- Mikailapeak 2001
- Macaylapeak 2000
- Sydneepeak 2003
- Mekaylapeak 1998
- Dasiapeak 1997
- Mykaylapeak 1999
- Sydniepeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.