Is Sydney a male or female name?
Sydney is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 94%, based on 210,271 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 94%
- Sample size
- 210,271
- Confidence
- high
Sydney by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 95% | 186,753 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 96% | 15,649 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | female | 86% | 5,262 | ons |
| France FR | female | 60% | 2,150 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | female | 69% | 275 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 66% | 83 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 82% | 56 | statat |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 43 | cso |
Attested in 63 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AG · AT · AU · BB · BD · BE · BI · BW · BZ · CA · CB · CH · CM · CY · DM · ER · ES · FJ · FR · GB · GD · GH · GY · IE · IN · JM · KE · KI · KN · LC · LR · LS · ME · MH · MT · MU · MW · NA · NG · NR · NZ · PG · PH · PL · PW · RS · RW · SB · SC · SE · SL · SZ · TO · TT · TV · UG · US · VC · VU · WS · ZA · ZM · ZW
Sydney over time
In the United States, 9.3% of the babies named Sydney in the 1880s were girls, against 97.3% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 18.2% of the babies named Sydney in the 1980s were girls, against 71.9% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9% | 151 | — | |
| 1890s | 12% | 184 | — | |
| 1900s | 28% | 299 | — | |
| 1910s | 16% | 1,706 | — | |
| 1920s | 19% | 1,615 | — | |
| 1930s | 49% | 1,625 | — | |
| 1940s | 65% | 2,328 | — | |
| 1950s | 71% | 2,153 | — | |
| 1960s | 73% | 1,855 | — | |
| 1970s | 72% | 1,288 | — | |
| 1980s | 91% | 5,041 | 18% | 165 |
| 1990s | 98% | 56,769 | 46% | 340 |
| 2000s | 99% | 77,275 | 78% | 860 |
| 2010s | 98% | 28,568 | 67% | 480 |
| 2020s | 97% | 5,896 | 72% | 160 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Sydney with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Sydney&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Sydney
Is Sydney a male or female name?
Sydney is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 94%, based on 210,271 observations.
Why can the result for Sydney change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Sydney identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.