Sidney

English from French

"Saint Denis"

Sidney Origin and Meaning

Variation of Sydney

Sidney Rank in US Top 1000

# 961 in the US

Sidney Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 413 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Sidney

• 413 Nameberry 2025
• 374 Unique 2024
• 207 Unisex 2024
• 220 England 2024
• 491 Germany 2016

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Famous People Named Sidney

• Sidney Arthur Lumet American film director
• Sidney Poitier American actor
• Sidney Sheldon American TV writer and novelist
• Sidney Coleman American theoretical physicist
• Sidney Bechet American jazz saxophonist
• Sidney James Webb 1st Baron Passfield, former British secretary of state
• Sidney Robert Nolan Australian painter
• Sidney Altman Canadian,American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize winner
• Sidney Patrick Crosby Canadian ice hockey player
• Sidney Selby III known as Desiigner, American rapper

The name Sidney in Pop Culture

• Sidney Chambers protagonist in James Runcie's "Grantchester" novels and PBS' Mystery series "Grantchester"
• Sidney Mussburger character in "The Hudsucker Proxy"
• Sidney Glass character on TV's "Once Upon a Time"
• Sidney "Sid" Jenkins character on British TV series "Skins"
• Sidney Freedman psychiatrist on the TV series M*A*S*H
• Sidney Falco lead character in the 1957 film "Sweet Smell of Success"

International Variations of the name Sidney

• Sidonio Spanish