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Sydne vs Sydnor

American parents have registered 876 Sydnes since 1880, against 7 Sydnors. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sydne against Sydnor, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sydne 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

Of the 55 years in which either name was published, Sydne for 54 years and Sydnor for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sydne Sydnor
Total US births 8767
Most in one year 597
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8200
Median age today 29100
Peak year 19961925
Best rank 2,253rd girls3,408th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19361925
Girls / boys 876 / 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 Sydnes are over 29. That is 71 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: Sydne and Sydnor.