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Siddharth vs Sidnee

American parents have registered 3,329 Siddharths since 1880, against 636 Sidnees. Siddharth is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siddharth against Sidnee, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siddharth Sidnee

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

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Siddharth for 37 years and Sidnee for 11 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Siddharth Sidnee
Total US births 3,329636
Most in one year 18439
Babies in 2025 59under 5
Estimated living today 3,300620
Median age today 1424
Peak year 20101999
Best rank 1,047th boys3,245th girls
Rank in 2025 2,332ndunranked
First recorded 19761940
Girls / boys 0 / 3,329636 / 0

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 Sidnees alive today are over 24; half the Siddharths are over 14. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Siddharth Sidnee
England and Wales 4193

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: Siddharth and Sidnee.