Given name
Sydni
“from the wide meadow”·“of the wide meadow”
Sydni is a variant of Sidney. One English interpretation is “from the wide meadow.” Sydni is a variant of Sydney. One English interpretation is “of the wide meadow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sydni is a variant of Sidney. One English interpretation is “from the wide meadow.” Sydni is a variant of Sydney. One English interpretation is “of the wide meadow.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sydni is a variant of Sidney. An origin associated with Sidney is English.
Explained through its name family
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. Sydni is a variant 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
Sydni through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,361
- 0 boys · 5,361 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 468 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,816 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −66%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,816 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 66.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 468 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,895 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.
Sydni’s family of names
Sydni has a related form in Sydney. Sydni has a related form in Sidney. In English usage, Sydni has a related form in Cidny.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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