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Sid

#10,518 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Sidney

Sid has been given to 3,012 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #10,518 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Sid, 2025

1 in 474,000

Sid over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sid: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Sidney

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sid means

Sid is a short form of Sidney.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sid → Sidney. The family’s meaning is “wide + island”, recorded in English with the source elements sīd and eġ.

Origin, language, and formation

Sid is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sidney, Siddhartha and Syd.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sid is pronounced /sɪd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,007 boys were recorded with the name Sid between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1960; its best national rank was #427 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,238 in 2020 to #10,518 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,253 in 2015 to #10,518 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Sid between 1921 and 1921. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1921; its best national rank was #5,757 in 1921.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sid?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,518
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sid sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sid was born before 1950 — so the typical Sid is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
12.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,519
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 12.4% of all recorded uses (372).

Is Sid rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−5,842
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,280
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,265
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.6%
Peak was 1960 (66)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#427
1884

Where Sid is used

Across 1910–2025, Sid was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 212,796 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sid around the world

Where Sid ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2017
    #733
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #584
    in 2023
  • France
    1952–2022
    #3,901
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1994–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1964–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Sid

People whose public names include Sid, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sid in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sid. Linked forms have their own page here.

CidSydSidiSidySidneySeadSideSido

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sid by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,518
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,280
Best rank ever
#427
1884
Peak year
1960
66 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,007
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,757
1921
Peak year
1921
5 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1921
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sid

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SidiSiddharthSiddhSidharthSiddhantSidneySidakSiddiqSidySidhSiddharthaSiddarthSidonSidhantSiddhanSiddhanthSidhvikSidikiSidarthSidhanthSidhanSiddeeqSiddhikSiddanth

Names with a curve like Sid

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sid, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SandersStaffordAlonzaRobyWillianWillamWymanGodfreyDellGardnerNelsLovell

Sibling names for Sid

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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