Sidney
Sidney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 137 births. Its best rank was 80th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1370.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19181,879 births
- Best rank
- #80in 1912
- Since 1880
- 108,736people given the name
The story in the numbers
84,056 boys have been named Sidney in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,879 births — 0.19% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 137 births in 2024, against 1,879 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 134 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 16 of them in the top 100.
Sidney is used for both sexes: 23% of its bearers are girls (24,680), most of them born around 2000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Sidney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,505 | |
| 1890s | 1,612 | |
| 1900s | 1,981 | |
| 1910s | 12,793 | |
| 1920s | 14,201 | |
| 1930s | 9,420 | |
| 1940s | 9,609 | |
| 1950s | 9,633 | |
| 1960s | 6,843 | |
| 1970s | 3,818 | |
| 1980s | 3,333 | |
| 1990s | 3,828 | |
| 2000s | 2,729 | |
| 2010s | 1,990 | |
| 2020s | 761 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Sidney was the 94th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Sidney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Louispeak 1921
- Clementpeak 1918
- Chesterpeak 1920
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Edmondpeak 1920
- Irvinpeak 1923
- Bertrampeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.