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Sydne vs Sydnie

American parents have registered 5,187 Sydnies since 1880, against 876 Sydnes. Sydnie is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sydne against Sydnie, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sydne Sydnie

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 76 years in which either name was published, Sydnie for 54 years and Sydne for 22 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

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

Side by side

  Sydne Sydnie
Total US births 8765,187
Most in one year 59352
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 8205,100
Median age today 2924
Peak year 19962000
Best rank 2,253rd girls681st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,107th
First recorded 19361933
Girls / boys 876 / 05,187 / 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 Sydnes alive today are over 29; half the Sydnies are over 24. That is 5 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: Sydne and Sydnie.