The name Sydney is said to be an English surname that goes back to the French place St. Denis, which in turn is said to be due to the Greek god ‘Dionysus’.
Sydney is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Sydney isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Sydney ranks 134. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 14 were named Sydney. In the entire USA, approximately 174,371 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sydney. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
The name Sydney is said to be an English surname that goes back to the French place St. Denis, which in turn is said to be due to the Greek god ‘Dionysus’.
Did you know... that many people think the city 'Sydney' is the capital of Australia? But this is wrong. The capital of Australia is called 'Canberra'.
Sydney is the epitome of persistance. Every single year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their daughter Sydney. This means that several girls and women named Sydney have witnessed major events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Sydney has reached its best rank of 22 several times, most recently in 2001. Moreover, the name has been in the top 100 numerous times. This makes Sydney one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sydney was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Sydney will be Sydney. Like every other year, there were newborns named Sydney in 2022 – in fact 1,194 to be precise, confirming Sydney is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #247 among all girls‘ names. Incidentally, the least popular year for Sydney was 1974, when only 86 baby girls were named Sydney.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Sydney is one of them. However, Sydney is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Nevada seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,109 women called Sydney who live here are 0,248% of all female residents and push their name up to #92, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Nevada.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Sydney is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sydney and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sydney, you can simply say:
Sun
Yoyo
Dinosaur
Nut
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sydney
Sydney
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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Y
D
N
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Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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Y
D
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Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sydney sounds like this:
