Sidney
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning wide meadow; from st. denys.
Sidney by the numbers
In 2025, 247 babies in England and Wales were named Sidney. In the US, 401 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 1,878 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sidney. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Sidney
Names that are said the same way as Sidney, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Sidney, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Savannahgrassy plain; treeless plain5,231 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Kinsleyfrom the king's meadow; an English place name used as given name4,048 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haileyhay meadow; form of Hayley3,691 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Sidney
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