Sydney
124
Babies in 2024
+3%
10-year change
2003
Peak · 223
+19%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Sydney
Sydney peaked among UK girls' names in the early 2000s (223 babies in 2003) and has remained in active use — 124 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Sydney reached its peak in 2003, when 223 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #211 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 124 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,264 girls have been officially registered with the name Sydney in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,215 girls were registered with the name, starting from 120 in 2014 and ending at 124 in 2024.