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Siddhant vs Sidney

American parents have registered 108,987 Sidneys since 1880, against 589 Siddhants. Sidney is still ahead, with 251 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siddhant against Sidney, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siddhant Sidney

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Sidney has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Siddhant had 25 and Sidney had 307.

Side by side

  Siddhant Sidney
Total US births 589108,987
Most in one year 411,939
Babies in 2025 10251
Estimated living today 58055,000
Median age today 1435
Peak year 20111918
Best rank 2,852nd boys94th boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th1,323rd
First recorded 19991880
Girls / boys 0 / 58924,785 / 84,202

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sidneys alive today are over 35; half the Siddhants are over 14. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Siddhant Sidney
England and Wales 1215,484

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Siddhant and Sidney.