girls:
5 births since 1921
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
3k births since 1880
#2301 (50th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1880
#4966 (36th percentile)
The name Sid is the #4,966 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,982 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 35.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,301 (49.8% percentile) for all time with 2,977 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1921.
Sid has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls). Birth data for Sid is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sid has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Sid reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 9.3% percentile (ranked #596) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 155 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sid ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 5.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sid reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #605) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1921.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sid".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sid. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sid is pronounced as sihd, which has 1 syllables.
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