Sid
Sid was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,518 among boys’ names; 3,012 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Sid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 19 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sid is “a short form of the male given names Sidney and Siddhartha.”
Also “Alternative form of Syd (“unisex given name”).”
/sɪd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sid?
#10,518 among boys’ names, 2025
Sid fell from #5,253 in 2015 to #10,518 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 4.1 per million.
66 babies in 1960, the peak
Sid peaked in 1960, when 66 boys were given it, #936 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,518 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,676 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,878 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,100 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,901 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,238 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,778 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,584 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,285 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,755 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (144)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,253 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,109 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,944 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 19 | #5,008 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,086 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,343 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,723 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,777 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,762 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,560 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,202 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,351 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,952 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,254 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,775 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,016 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,020 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,635 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,294 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,323 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,133 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,154 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,476 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,782 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,411 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,389 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,913 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,811 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,345 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,198 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,108 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,934 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,622 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,495 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,921 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,668 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,980 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,670 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,687 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,645 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 28 | #1,481 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,664 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,195 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,225 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,275 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 63 | #977 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 66 | #936 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 65 | #961 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,125 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,087 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,359 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,719 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 27 | #1,492 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,889 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,611 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,427 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,180 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 40 | #1,141 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,144 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,090 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,404 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,254 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,303 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,137 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,184 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,331 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,335 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 41 | #999 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,116 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,536 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,210 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,156 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,277 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,350 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,327 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,407 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,265 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,231 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,444 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,254 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 23 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 15 | #817 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,076 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 10 | #939 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,186 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,231 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 12 | #734 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 9 | #867 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 8 | #901 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 9 | #853 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 7 | #933 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 9 | #774 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 12 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 7 | #929 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 8 | #886 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 8 | #863 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 14 | #562 | 0.12 |
| 1893 | 14 | #532 | 0.12 |
| 1892 | 13 | #591 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 10 | #630 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 12 | #597 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 8 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 9 | #748 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 10 | #625 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 14 | #505 | 0.13 |
| 1884 | 19 | #427 | 0.17 |
| 1883 | 10 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 11 | #606 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 10 | #586 | 0.10 |
| 1880 | 7 | #798 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sid has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 144 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sid, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 50% of the 3,012 Americans ever recorded as Sid. The median Sid alive today is 54 years old; half are between 19 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 3,432 people named Sid (148 women and girls, 3,284 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,574 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Sid rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 104 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 496 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 244 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 127 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 234 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sid born?
The states with the most babies named Sid are California, Texas and New York, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 152 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 90 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 64 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 36 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sid with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,405 babies since 1880, Sid is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 179 babies (3.9%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sid
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sid and names like it
- Compare Sid and SyedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSid peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sid since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Sid.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sid alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.