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Sydelle vs Sydnor

American parents have registered 754 Sydelles since 1880, against 7 Sydnors. Sydelle is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sydelle against Sydnor, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sydelle Sydnor

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

Sydelle has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1925, when Sydelle had 24 and Sydnor had 7.

Side by side

  Sydelle Sydnor
Total US births 7547
Most in one year 467
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 2000
Median age today 75100
Peak year 19301925
Best rank 1,084th girls3,408th boys
Rank in 2025 10,107thunranked
First recorded 19061925
Girls / boys 754 / 00 / 7

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 Sydnors alive today are over 100; half the Sydelles are over 75. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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