Sydney Girl Name

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The name Sydney is of English origin, and is derived from the name of a city in Australia. The table below indicates the number of times the name Sydney has been given to baby girls 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 girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Sydney**
Use of the Name Sydney for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
110,937	107,762	106,213	86,876	46,052	17,171	8,293

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

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Sydney**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy 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	885	8	642	10
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	821	21	409	28
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	809	72	610	95
1933	635	107	627	86
1934	664	103	681	80
1935	691	94	677	79
1936	686	95	637	83
1937	716	90	610	92
1938	744	87	700	76
1939	782	77	667	80
1940	753	86	758	67
1941	540	171	674	83
1942	543	187	646	98
1943	544	190	739	77
1944	612	144	695	81
1945	639	132	653	86
1946	637	153	765	76
1947	733	137	747	85
1948	721	137	796	73
1949	624	177	748	85
1950	598	200	776	78
1951	601	204	912	60
1952	599	210	923	60
1953	745	151	826	76
1954	789	142
1955	841	134
1956	926	120	924	66
1957	955	117
1958			921	68
1959	895	136	980	62
1960	946	128
1961	959	127
1962
1963	843	154
1964	798	171	952	65
1965	761	170
1966	759	167
1967	918	125	975	56
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	39	7,255	987	127
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:		110,937		5,618

During the last 125 years, parents have used Sydney as a girl's name about 95% of the time and less frequently (about 4% of the time) as a boy'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 girl names only 60 times during the last 125 years.

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