Given name & surname
Sid
“one who has accomplished his goal”·“from the wide meadow”
In English use, Sid is a short form of Siddhartha. One Sanskrit interpretation is “one who has accomplished his goal.” In English use, Sid is a short form of Sidney. One English interpretation is “from the wide meadow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Sid is a short form of Siddhartha. One Sanskrit interpretation is “one who has accomplished his goal.” In English use, Sid is a short form of Sidney. One English interpretation is “from the wide meadow.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Sid is a short form of Siddhartha. An origin associated with Siddhartha is Sanskrit. In English use, Sid is a short form of Sidney. An origin associated with Sidney is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Sid is a short form of Sidney. In English usage, Sid is a short form of Siddhartha.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Sid is a short form of 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
Sid through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,012
- 3,007 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 66 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,522 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,522 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 8.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 66 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,432 as a first name in 2020; 234 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sid’s family of names
In English usage, Sid is a diminutive of Sidney. In English usage, Sid has a later derivative in 시드. In English usage, Sid has a related form in Syd.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Sidraequivalent
- Sidiequivalent
- Cidequivalent
- Sidyequivalent
- Sidoequivalent
- 시드derivative · Korean
- Siduequivalent
- Sideequivalent
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People named Sid
- Sid MeierCanadian-American game programmer and designerborn 1954
- Sid CaesarAmerican comic actor and writer (1922–2014)
- Sid HaigAmerican actor (1939–2019)
- Sid WilsonAmerican disc jockeyborn 1977
- Sid EudyAmerican professional wrestler (1960–2024)
- Sid WatkinsEnglish neurosurgeon and Formula One doctor1928–2012
- Sid AtkinsonSouth African athlete (1901–1977)
- Sid GraumanAmerican showman (1879-1950)
- Sid AbelCanadian ice hockey player (1918–2000)
Characters named Sid: Sid Jenkins (Skins).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Sid, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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Rip
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Ted
“a gift from God” · “having heart”
>99% boys
Wayde
“to cross the river ford”
>99% boys
Wess
“from the western meadow”
>99% boys
Val
“one who is strong and healthy” · “resembling a spring flower”
88% boys · 12% girls
Glen
“from the secluded narrow valley”
>99% boys