Sydney

Spelling variation of Sidney, French

"Saint Denis"

Sydney Origin and Meaning

The name Sydney is a boy's name meaning "Saint Denis".

The Sydney spelling most popular for girls: it's in the Top 50 on the female side. Cool for a girl, still nerdy for a guy.

Sydney Rank in US Top 1000

# 988 in the US

Sydney Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1296 on Nameberry

Sydney Popularity

• 1296 Nameberry 2025
• 924 England 2015

20 Names Similar to Sydney

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Sydney.

• Nahara
• Reilly
• Iskandar
• Galyn
• Brookes
• Renelle
• Norrie
• Chrissie
• Haldane
• Galyn
• Wilford
• Almanzo
• Thadeo
• Herve
• Onesimus
• Fernand
• Fielder
• Loring
• Euroa
• Eureka

Famous People Named Sydney

• Sydney Brenner winner of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Sydney Ayres (dropped his first name Daniel) American silent film actor, director and screenwriter

Sydney in Pop Culture

• Sydney capital city of New South Wales in Australia.
• Sydney Carton character from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
• Syd March protagonist of movie "Antiviral"
• Sydney character in the TV show "The Pretender"