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Name meaning & stats

Sydney

Sydney means “wide island”. 182,120 US babies since 1940, peak 2000.

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What it means

“wide island”

Well documented

In US birth records

Peak year: 2000

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182,120 US babies were named Sydney between 1940 and 2025.

Careers

Not enough notable people named Sydney (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.

Spelling family

The most common spelling: 90% of the family

Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.

Name twins (peaked around 2000)