Sydney

French
"Saint Denis"

Sydney Origin and Meaning

The name Sydney is a girl's name of French origin meaning "Saint Denis".

Sydney was a hot girls' name in the 1990s, but she's arguably still cool. One of the original old man names adopted for baby girls, Sydney's popularity may be down but she's not out.

Cool girl actress Sydney Sweeney, of Euphoria and White Lotus, is doing a lot to burnish Sydney's image. The city of Sydney, Australia is another familiar reference.

Katharine Hepburn played a female Sidney in her first movie, A Bill of Divorcement and lately there have been women named Sydney all over the big and small screens, including Annette Bening in The American President, and on Alias, Parenthood and Hope and Faith. Actor Sidney Poitier named his daughter Sydney back in 1973,

# 306 in the US

Sydney Rank in US Top 1000

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Sydney Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Sydney

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Famous People Named Sydney

  • Sydney Owenson
    Lady Morgan, Irish novelist
  • Sydney Margaret Penny
    American actress
  • Sydney Sierota
    lead singer of American band Echosmith
  • Sydney Rae Leroux Dwyer
    Canadian,American soccer player
  • Sydney Laura Stevenson
    English actress; daughter of actors Robert Lindsay and Diana Weston
  • Sydney Tamiia Poitier
    American actress; daughter of actor Sidney Poitier
  • Sydney Jurldine Conway (b. 2011)
    daughter of boxer Laila Ali and NFL player Curtis Conway
  • Sydney Harada (b. 2005)
    daughter of tattoo artist and TV personality Yoji Harada

The name Sydney in Pop Culture

  • Sydney Andrews
    character on TV's "Melrose Place"
  • Sydney Bristow
    character on TV's "Alias"
  • Sydney Sage
    character from Richelle Mead's book series 'Bloodlines'
  • Sydney "Syd" Drew
    the Pink Ranger on TV's "Power Rangers S.P.D."
  • Sydney Graham
    character on TV's Parenthood
  • Sydney Fox
    character on TV's "Relic Hunter"
  • Sydney Kells
    main character on TV's "Sydney"
  • "Sydney White
    " 2007 film and its main character
  • Sydney Stanford
    main character in Sarah Dessen's Saint Anything
  • Sydney Driscoll
    character on TV's "Pretty Little Liars"
  • Sydney "Syd" Barrett
    character on TV's "Legion"
  • Sydney
    major city in Australia
  • Sydney Novak
    main character in graphic novel and TV series "I Am Not Okay With This"
  • Sydney Clark
    Character in V.E. Schawb's Villains duology

International Variations of the name Sydney

  • Sidonia
    Dutch
  • Tzidoni
    Israeli
  • Sidaine
    French
  • Sidonie
    French

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