Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Sidi isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sidi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 110
- 110 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,587 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,587 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 391 as a first name in 2020; 323 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.
Sidi’s family of names
In Greek usage, Sidi as a surname is a transliteration of Σίδη.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sidi
- Sidi TalSoviet singer (1912-1983)
- Sidi Bouna AmarMauritanian footballer (born 1998)
- Sidi Fredj HalimiAlgerian rabbi (1876–1957)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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