How popular is “Sidney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sidney” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sidney” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sidney” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sidney” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sidney” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sidney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sidney” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	158	0.000784181	16	142	-80%
1881	145	0.000752512	16	129	-78%
1882	155	0.00069967	9	146	-88%
1883	174	0.000802043	9	165	-90%
1884	153	0.000628437	11	142	-86%
1885	180	0.000747341	10	170	-89%
1886	165	0.000646258	10	155	-88%
1887	152	0.00061441	8	144	-89%
1888	178	0.000594375	10	168	-89%
1889	159	0.000550276	15	144	-81%
1890	191	0.000633707	15	176	-84%
1891	135	0.00047092	22	113	-67%
1892	191	0.000571217	17	174	-82%
1893	180	0.000553466	17	163	-81%
1894	179	0.000528507	11	168	-88%
1895	196	0.000558373	18	178	-82%
1896	194	0.000542682	18	176	-81%
1897	171	0.000492856	22	149	-74%
1898	189	0.000495471	18	171	-81%
1899	156	0.00045986	12	144	-85%
1900	241	0.000535249	23	218	-81%
1901	151	0.000436653	17	134	-77%
1902	203	0.00052491	28	175	-72%
1903	181	0.000474816	19	162	-79%
1904	222	0.000550206	21	201	-81%
1905	213	0.000502451	17	196	-84%
1906	225	0.000525148	16	209	-86%
1907	220	0.000472722	20	200	-82%
1908	277	0.000566869	24	253	-83%
1909	245	0.000479242	12	233	-90%
1910	367	0.000621285	14	353	-92%
1911	456	0.000707769	24	432	-89%
1912	1029	0.001041433	26	1003	-95%
1913	1116	0.000981435	43	1073	-92%
1914	1376	0.000971515	39	1337	-94%
1915	1678	0.000915726	63	1615	-92%
1916	1713	0.000885538	54	1659	-94%
1917	1782	0.000888003	55	1727	-94%
1918	1939	0.000893091	60	1879	-94%
1919	1775	0.000841135	60	1715	-93%
1920	1664	0.000735423	54	1610	-94%
1921	1649	0.00070636	61	1588	-93%
1922	1669	0.00072909	51	1618	-94%
1923	1605	0.000697074	62	1543	-92%
1924	1560	0.000655019	58	1502	-93%
1925	1389	0.000595294	44	1345	-94%
1926	1419	0.000618057	69	1350	-90%
1927	1435	0.000618706	54	1381	-92%
1928	1266	0.000559945	60	1206	-91%
1929	1113	0.000507718	55	1058	-90%
1930	1124	0.000505558	48	1076	-91%
1931	985	0.00046807	48	937	-90%
1932	1017	0.000481696	57	960	-89%
1933	1025	0.000512642	77	948	-85%
1934	1010	0.000486321	78	932	-85%
1935	1066	0.000510072	93	973	-83%
1936	1033	0.000497214	81	952	-84%
1937	968	0.000454317	63	905	-87%
1938	965	0.000436144	89	876	-82%
1939	924	0.000419344	63	861	-86%
1940	1001	0.00043471	74	927	-85%
1941	974	0.000399766	83	891	-83%
1942	1116	0.000408519	116	1000	-79%
1943	1153	0.000408495	137	1016	-76%
1944	985	0.00036616	85	900	-83%
1945	918	0.000346035	89	829	-81%
1946	1100	0.000344255	90	1010	-84%
1947	1215	0.000337282	116	1099	-81%
1948	1064	0.000308181	73	991	-86%
1949	1034	0.000296719	88	946	-83%
1950	1154	0.000329398	78	1076	-86%
1951	1123	0.000304853	97	1026	-83%
1952	1128	0.000296998	109	1019	-81%
1953	1102	0.000285963	89	1013	-84%
1954	1118	0.000280855	94	1024	-83%
1955	1116	0.000277952	92	1024	-84%
1956	1035	0.000251029	81	954	-84%
1957	930	0.000221316	86	844	-82%
1958	921	0.000222792	94	827	-80%
1959	898	0.00021597	72	826	-84%
1960	940	0.000226298	92	848	-80%
1961	900	0.000217271	57	843	-87%
1962	841	0.000208407	59	782	-86%
1963	737	0.000186196	65	672	-82%
1964	788	0.000202695	57	731	-86%
1965	691	0.000190597	53	638	-85%
1966	681	0.000195934	66	615	-81%
1967	646	0.000190286	53	593	-84%
1968	609	0.000180262	37	572	-88%
1969	581	0.000167179	32	549	-89%
1970	549	0.000152225	39	510	-86%
1971	474	0.000138098	29	445	-88%
1972	496	0.000157811	34	462	-86%
1973	406	0.000134576	25	381	-88%
1974	395	0.000129934	29	366	-85%
1975	388	0.000128503	41	347	-79%
1976	367	0.00012095	23	344	-87%
1977	385	0.000121203	40	345	-79%
1978	332	0.000104604	36	296	-78%
1979	353	0.000106102	31	322	-82%
1980	382	0.000110901	29	353	-85%
1981	376	0.00010869	41	335	-78%
1982	382	0.000108895	49	333	-74%
1983	381	0.000110009	51	330	-73%
1984	375	0.000107488	64	311	-66%
1985	434	0.000121599	83	351	-62%
1986	386	0.000108516	75	311	-61%
1987	418	0.00011593	96	322	-54%
1988	465	0.000125844	123	342	-47%
1989	515	0.000133959	170	345	-34%
1990	575	0.000145478	207	368	-28%
1991	708	0.000181759	325	383	-8%
1992	752	0.000195768	366	386	-3%
1993	821	0.000217756	420	401	2%
1994	961	0.000258496	568	393	18%
1995	1295	0.000353617	883	412	36%
1996	1203	0.000329843	828	375	38%
1997	1392	0.000383921	1009	383	45%
1998	1514	0.000411614	1140	374	51%
1999	1571	0.0004253	1218	353	55%
2000	1554	0.000411122	1221	333	57%
2001	1368	0.000365444	1053	315	54%
2002	1213	0.00032448	939	274	55%
2003	1236	0.000325065	951	285	54%
2004	1103	0.000288674	836	267	52%
2005	1056	0.000274653	834	222	58%
2006	1000	0.000252769	745	255	49%
2007	922	0.000230634	668	254	45%
2008	853	0.000217012	583	270	37%
2009	825	0.000215959	571	254	38%
2010	691	0.000186972	432	259	25%
2011	644	0.000176063	413	231	28%
2012	549	0.000150108	323	226	18%
2013	492	0.000134955	282	210	15%
2014	462	0.00012465	295	167	28%
2015	450	0.000121592	270	180	20%
2016	456	0.000124295	260	196	14%
2017	402	0.00011241	225	177	12%
2018	383	0.000108934	215	168	12%
2019	355	0.000102278	179	176	1%
2020	307	0.0000919	141	166	-8%
2021	296	0.000087368	164	132	11%
2022	331	0.000097838	165	166	-0%
2023	288	0.000086978	128	160	-11%
2024	254	0.000076311	117	137	-8%

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