Sydney
34
Babies in 2024
-3%
10-year change
2009
Peak · 39
+55%
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 boys' names in the late 2000s (39 babies in 2009) and has remained in active use — 34 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Sydney reached its peak in 2009, when 39 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #748 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 34 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 691 boys have been officially registered with the name Sydney in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 295 boys were registered with the name, starting from 35 in 2014 and ending at 34 in 2024.