first name
SYDNEY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 169,164 people named Sydney, 74.5% reported their origin as White, 9.6% as Black and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.7% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Sydney peaked in 2000, when 10,369 babies got the name.
At least 187,700 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Sydney by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #85. The largest share of babies named Sydney, 61.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Sydney is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sydney has been most common in Nevada (1.9×), Utah (1.8×), and Colorado (1.6×), and least common in Mississippi (0.52×).
177,972 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Sydney
Spelled almost the same
4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sydney, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Sydney ranks #30,753 of 156,621, with 811 people. See Sydney as a last name
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