Sydney
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Sydney
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.
Sydney for girls#348 US
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,
Sydney for boys#5021 US
The Sydney spelling most popular for girls: it's in the Top 50 on the female side. Cool for a girl, still nerdy for a guy.
Pronounced SID-nee.
As of October 2026, Sydney ranked #348 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #23 in 2002, Nameberry popularity #836.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #109 | 2,855 | #2,510 | 50 |
| 2015 | #122 | 2,660 | #2,521 | 50 |
| 2016 | #135 | 2,322 | #2,656 | 47 |
| 2017 | #146 | 2,013 | #2,999 | 40 |
| 2018 | #164 | 1,757 | #3,229 | 36 |
| 2019 | #197 | 1,533 | #3,044 | 40 |
| 2020 | #241 | 1,245 | #3,558 | 31 |
| 2021 | #249 | 1,231 | #3,165 | 38 |
| 2022 | #271 | 1,169 | #3,679 | 31 |
| 2023 | #307 | 1,003 | #3,276 | 37 |
| 2024 | #288 | 1,097 | #4,292 | 25 |
| 2025 | #348 | 873 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Sydney for girls
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Sydney on lists
Famous Sydneys
- Sydney OwensonGirl
Lady Morgan, Irish novelist
- Sydney Margaret PennyGirl
American actress
- Sydney SierotaGirl
lead singer of American band Echosmith
- Sydney Rae Leroux DwyerGirl
Canadian,American soccer player
- Sydney Laura StevensonGirl
English actress; daughter of actors Robert Lindsay and Diana Weston
- Sydney Tamiia PoitierGirl
American actress; daughter of actor Sidney Poitier
- Sydney Jurldine Conway (b. 2011)Girl
daughter of boxer Laila Ali and NFL player Curtis Conway
- Sydney Harada (b. 2005)Girl
daughter of tattoo artist and TV personality Yoji Harada
- Sydney Bernice SweeneyGirl
American actress
- Sydney PaightGirl
Contestant and runner-up on season 4 of Love Island USA
- Sydney BrennerBoy
winner of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Sydney Ayres (dropped his first name Daniel)Boy
American silent film actor, director and screenwriter
Sydney in pop culture
- Sydney AndrewsGirl
character on TV's "Melrose Place"
- Sydney BristowGirl
character on TV's "Alias"
- Sydney SageGirl
character from Richelle Mead's book series 'Bloodlines'
- Sydney "Syd" DrewGirl
the Pink Ranger on TV's "Power Rangers S.P.D."
- Sydney GrahamGirl
character on TV's Parenthood
- Sydney FoxGirl
character on TV's "Relic Hunter"
- Sydney KellsGirl
main character on TV's "Sydney"
- "Sydney WhiteGirl
" 2007 film and its main character
- Sydney StanfordGirl
main character in Sarah Dessen's Saint Anything
- Sydney DriscollGirl
character on TV's "Pretty Little Liars"
- Sydney "Syd" BarrettGirl
character on TV's "Legion"
- SydneyGirl
major city in Australia
- Sydney NovakGirl
main character in graphic novel and TV series "I Am Not Okay With This"
- Sydney ClarkGirl
Character in V.E. Schawb's Villains duology
- SydneyBoy
capital city of New South Wales in Australia.
- Sydney CartonBoy
character from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
- Syd MarchBoy
protagonist of movie "Antiviral"
- SydneyBoy
character in the TV show "The Pretender"