Sydney Boy Name

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The name Sydney is of English origin, and is a variation of Sidney. The table below indicates the number of times the name Sydney has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Sydney**
Use of the Name Sydney for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
5,618	444	127	127	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Sydney has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Sydney**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	561	12
1881	855	6
1882	647	10
1883	589	11
1884	543	13
1885	354	25
1886	642	10	885	8
1887	484	14
1888	463	18
1889	443	18
1890	626	11
1891	760	8
1892	538	15
1893	382	23
1894	416	21
1895	397	24
1896	533	16
1897	549	15
1898	699	11
1899	478	17
1900	732	13
1901	590	13
1902	647	13
1903	429	23
1904	400	28
1905	409	28	821	21
1906	519	20
1907	554	20
1908	473	28
1909	484	29
1910	420	42
1911	387	54
1912	359	115
1913	340	146
1914	349	179
1915	412	173
1916	389	204
1917	420	182
1918	430	186
1919	471	161
1920	459	176
1921	473	169
1922	484	162
1923	528	133
1924	566	126
1925	545	129
1926	600	111
1927	589	111
1928	624	98
1929	651	90
1930	687	84
1931	707	74
1932	610	95	809	72
1933	627	86	635	107
1934	681	80	664	103
1935	677	79	691	94
1936	637	83	686	95
1937	610	92	716	90
1938	700	76	744	87
1939	667	80	782	77
1940	758	67	753	86
1941	674	83	540	171
1942	646	98	543	187
1943	739	77	544	190
1944	695	81	612	144
1945	653	86	639	132
1946	765	76	637	153
1947	747	85	733	137
1948	796	73	721	137
1949	748	85	624	177
1950	776	78	598	200
1951	912	60	601	204
1952	923	60	599	210
1953	826	76	745	151
1954			789	142
1955			841	134
1956	924	66	926	120
1957			955	117
1958	921	68
1959	980	62	895	136
1960			946	128
1961			959	127
1962
1963			843	154
1964	952	65	798	171
1965			761	170
1966			759	167
1967	975	56	918	125
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981			958	153
1982			969	153
1983			791	200
1984			626	282
1985			479	438
1986			467	461
1987			364	648
1988			275	912
1989			230	1,193
1990			150	2,024
1991			133	2,381
1992			124	2,706
1993			106	3,049
1994			75	4,737
1995			43	7,355
1996	987	127	39	7,255
1997			34	8,028
1998			28	8,543
1999			23	9,643
2000			23	10,234
2001			23	9,627
2002			23	9,020
2003			25	8,878
2004			27	8,293
Totals:		5,618		110,937

During the last 125 years, parents have used Sydney as a boy's name about 4% of the time and more frequently (about 95% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Sydney appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 80 times during the last 125 years.

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