Given name
Cyd
“of the wide meadow”·“a lord”·“from the wide meadow”
In English use, Cyd is a short form of Cydney. In English use, Cydney carries the interpretation “of the wide meadow.” Cyd is a variant of Cid. One Spanish interpretation is “a lord.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Cyd is a short form of Cydney. In English use, Cydney carries the interpretation “of the wide meadow.” Cyd is a variant of Cid. One Spanish interpretation is “a lord.” In English use, Cyd has a related form in Sidney. One English interpretation is “from the wide meadow.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Cyd is a variant of Cid. An origin associated with Cid is Spanish. In English use, Cyd has a related form in Sidney. An origin associated with Sidney is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Cyd is a short form of Cydney.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Cyd has a related form in Sidney. The history of Sidney gives this family its wider story. The poet and soldier Philip Sidney belongs to the surname’s history. Dickens’s Sydney Carton supplies a later literary association through the variant spelling Sydney, which may have encouraged nineteenth-century given-name use.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Cyd through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 556
- 0 boys · 556 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 45 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1977. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 45 in 1954. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 797 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cyd’s family of names
In English usage, Cyd is a short form of Cydney. In English usage, Cyd has a related form in Sydney. In English usage, Cyd has a related form in Sidney.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Cyd
- Cyd CharisseAmerican dancer and actress (1921–2008)1922–2008
- Cyd GrayTrinidad and Tobago footballerborn 1973
- Cyd HaymanBritish actressborn 1944
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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