Entry № 9623 · English origin

Sidney Sidney — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Wide meadow"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "wide meadow".

Sidney is a variant spelling of Sydney, meaning wide meadow.

Wide meadow — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Sidney
Transliteration
Sidney
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Sidney stands.

Sidney does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sidneys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Sidney.

The number behind Sidney.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sidney reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.