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Sydelle vs Sydne

American parents have registered 876 Sydnes since 1880, against 754 Sydelles. But in 2025 it was Sydelle that was commoner, 9 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sydelle Sydne

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 96 years in which either name was published, Sydelle for 49 years and Sydne for 47 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Sydelle Sydne
Total US births 754876
Most in one year 4659
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 200820
Median age today 7529
Peak year 19301996
Best rank 1,084th girls2,253rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,107thunranked
First recorded 19061936
Girls / boys 754 / 0876 / 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 Sydelles alive today are over 75; half the Sydnes are over 29. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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