Sydney

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sydney: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sydney: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #206 in 2001, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#206highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#349
1997	#338
1998	#263
1999	#257
2000	#223
2001	#206
2002	#207
2003	#211
2004	#218
2005	#224
2006	#266
2007	#272
2008	#280
2009	#245
2010	#289
2011	#307
2012	#320
2013	#378
2014	#373
2015	#330
2016	#415
2017	#396
2018	#370
2019	#424
2020	#472
2021	#431
2022	#427
2023	#400
2024	#355

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #351 among girls in Scotland, #355 among girls in England and Wales, #407 among girls in Northern Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #349 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #206 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Sydney appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 691 births with the name.

Sydney across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sydney's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1040 (1996)	#748 (2009)	#924 (2024)	29 of 29	691 (1996–2024)	39 (2009)
England and Wales · Girls	#349 (1996)	#206 (2001)	#355 (2024)	29 of 29	4,264 (1996–2024)	223 (2003)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#606 (2001)	#436 (2018)	#718 (2025)	11 of 25	43 (2001–2025)	9 (2018)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#413 (2007)	#407 (2024)	#407 (2024)	2 of 18	6 (2007–2024)	3 (2007)

Sydney by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sydney in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	60	4 of 10	15
2000s	229	10 of 10	23
2010sbusiest	279	10 of 10	28
2020s	123	5 of 10	25

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 28 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sydney appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #206 in England and Wales in 2001.

Sydney's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#355	124	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#924	34	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#400	104	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1243	22	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#427	99	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#967	31	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#431	101	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1782	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#472	85	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1150	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#424	100	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1253	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#370	122	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1013	28	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#396	111	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1042	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#415	107	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1022	28	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#330	142	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#903	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#373	120	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#854	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#378	118	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#882	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#320	152	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1119	24	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#307	159	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1087	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#289	167	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#245	199	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#748	39	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#280	169	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1085	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#272	177	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#883	29	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#266	175	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#939	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#224	211	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1095	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#218	208	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#211	223	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#945	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#207	210	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#805	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#206	191	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#947	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#223	190	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#918	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#257	155	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#809	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#263	147	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#338	100	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#964	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#349	98	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1040	13	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#436	9	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#351	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #206, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 223 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Swara · #2120, 15y
Sybil · #898, 21y
Sydney-Rose · #2706, 11y
Sydnie · #1160, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Nola · #206, 26y
Devin · #208, 33y
Zayan · #208, 27y
Kaden · #203, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Brenna · #206, 20y
Jordyn · #206, 22y
Keela · #206, 27y
Nola · #206, 26y

Sydney was ranked #206 in England and Wales · Girls in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sydney and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sydney without appearing here.

Sydney moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1095 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #939 and #2538.
Jon Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1782 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #967 and #2320.
Graham Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1782 and #1391 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #967 and #2165.
Gary Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1782 and #1329 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #967 and #2018.

Moved ahead of Sydney

Filip Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1110 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1095 and #615.
Hunter Compare
In 2009 they stood at #748 and #848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1055 and #625.
Kasper Compare
In 2009 they stood at #748 and #944 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1055 and #668.
Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #945 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1110 and #731.

Moved the opposite way to Sydney

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sydney went from #206 to #355 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sydney went from #218 to #355 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

Moved the same way as Sydney

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Sydney went from #263 to #400 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sydney went from #223 to #355 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sydney went from #207 to #355 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.
Danielle Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sydney went from #606 to #905 and Danielle from #58 to #559.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #206 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sydney

Sydney at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sydney across 4 official records

Sydney by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sydney appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sydney

Sydney and the names beside it

Sydney moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sydney

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Sydney at a glance

Sydney across 4 official records

Sydney by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sydney appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sydney

Sydney and the names beside it

Sydney moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sydney

Moved the opposite way to Sydney

Moved the same way as Sydney