Sidney is a boy's name of French origin meaning “wide water meadow.” In 2024 it was given to 137 boys in the United States.
Sidney at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
French · English & American
Meaning
“wide water meadow”
Pronunciation
/ˈsɪdni/
Also spelled
Cydney, Cidney
About the name Sidney
Sidney belongs to the French and English & American tradition. Its meaning — “wide water meadow” — is the sense carried by its French roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Cydney, Cidney.
In the United States, Sidney first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #80 in 1912, and in 2024 137 babies received the name — 84,056 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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