Meaning and history
From a surname that was a variant of Sidney, Sydney is the name of Australia’s largest city, which was named in 1788 for Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Once used for both genders, this spelling has been mostly feminine since the 1980s.
20062006: 6,516 births, rank #34
2007: 6,032 births, rank #37
2008: 5,264 births, rank #49
2009: 5,061 births, rank #48
2010: 4,335 births, rank #60
20112011: 3,974 births, rank #65
2012: 3,456 births, rank #78
2013: 3,177 births, rank #98
2014: 2,855 births, rank #109
2015: 2,660 births, rank #122
20162016: 2,322 births, rank #135
2017: 2,013 births, rank #146
2018: 1,757 births, rank #164
2019: 1,535 births, rank #197
2020: 1,246 births, rank #241
20212021: 1,231 births, rank #249
2022: 1,169 births, rank #271
2023: 1,003 births, rank #307
2024: 1,104 births, rank #288
20252025: 873 births, rank #348
Sydney moved from #288 to #348 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2000, with 10,243 births.