Sydell vs Sydelle

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Sydell Sydelle

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 64 years in which either name was published, Sydelle for 41 years and Sydell for 23 years. The lead changed hands 27 times.

• 1906–1917 Sydelle ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1920–1922 Sydell ahead
• 1923–1940 Sydelle ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1946–1989 Sydell ahead, apart from one short spell
• 2002–2025 Sydelle ahead

19 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Sydells alive today are over 83; half the Sydelles are over 75. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Sydell New York (12.5×)
• Sydelle New York (12.7×)

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

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