Nymograph

Sydney: popularity and history

Explore how often Sydney appears in published U.S. birth-name records. Counts describe recorded births, not how many people with this name are alive today.

Female records

Latest dataset year: 2025. Most recent published observation for this name: 2025, with 873 births and rank 348.

First published birth year
1886
Total published births, 1886–2025
178,296
Best annual rank
23 in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Sydney · annual births per 10,000 published births in this recorded-sex population
0.0028.2056.40188619562025

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Published observations

Up to ten most recent published years, newest first. These may not be consecutive or recent calendar years. Missing records are unknown, not zero.

Sydney · female records · most recent published years
YearBirthsRank
2025873348
20241,104288
20231,003307
20221,169272
20211,231249
20201,246241
20191,535197
20181,757164
20172,013146
20162,322135
Latest ten dataset years (2016–2025)

Not published means no released observation; it does not establish zero births.

Sydney · female records · latest calendar years, including gaps
YearBirthsRank
2025873348
20241,104288
20231,003307
20221,169272
20211,231249
20201,246241
20191,535197
20181,757164
20172,013146
20162,322135

Male records

Latest dataset year: 2025. Most recent published observation for this name: 2025, with 20 births and rank 5,021.

First published birth year
1880
Total published births, 1880–2025
9,404
Best annual rank
341 in 1913
Sydney · annual births per 10,000 published births in this recorded-sex population
0.001.422.85188019522025

The line shows relative use, not raw counts. Gaps are unpublished observations. Open the interactive chart for exact annual values.

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Published observations

Up to ten most recent published years, newest first. These may not be consecutive or recent calendar years. Missing records are unknown, not zero.

Sydney · male records · most recent published years
YearBirthsRank
2025205,021
2024264,179
2023373,279
2022313,680
2021383,169
2020313,559
2019403,044
2018363,229
2017403,000
2016472,656
Latest ten dataset years (2016–2025)

Not published means no released observation; it does not establish zero births.

Sydney · male records · latest calendar years, including gaps
YearBirthsRank
2025205,021
2024264,179
2023373,279
2022313,680
2021383,169
2020313,559
2019403,044
2018363,229
2017403,000
2016472,656

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Alphabetical neighbors, not evidence of shared meaning, origin or popularity. Each spelling has its own recorded history.

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How to read these figures

An absent observation is not zero: small counts are withheld, and no published count may mean no births or a suppressed count. Early years are less complete. Recorded sex is a source category, not a rule about who may use a name. Annual ranks order published counts, with alphabetical tie-breaking. National and state totals need not match.

These records describe usage. They do not establish a name’s meaning, origin, ethnicity or pronunciation.