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Sydney vs Sydnor

American parents have registered 187,700 Sydneys since 1880, against 7 Sydnors. Sydney is still ahead, with 893 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sydney against Sydnor, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sydney 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

Sydney 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 1925, when Sydney had 154 and Sydnor had 7.

Side by side

  Sydney Sydnor
Total US births 187,7007
Most in one year 10,3697
Babies in 2025 893under 5
Estimated living today 178,0000
Median age today 23100
Peak year 20001925
Best rank 23rd girls3,408th boys
Rank in 2025 348thunranked
First recorded 18801925
Girls / boys 178,296 / 9,4040 / 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 Sydneys are over 23. That is 77 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: Sydney and Sydnor.