Sydell
Sydell was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 598 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sydell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sydell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,289, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1929, the peak
Sydell peaked in 1929, when 55 girls were given it, #979 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #14,289 | 2.7 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,723 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,629 | 3.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,676 | 3.1 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,236 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,180 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,307 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,619 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,985 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,649 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 11 | #3,016 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,081 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,520 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,959 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,196 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,909 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,718 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,374 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,713 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,274 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,654 | 21.8 |
| 1932 | 44 | #1,079 | 41.2 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,223 | 33.8 |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,142 | 38.2 |
| 1929 | 55 | #979 | 49.3 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,535 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,613 | 22.6 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,990 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,110 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,965 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,629 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,591 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,977 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,074 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,498 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,857 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,476 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,396 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,113 | 15.8 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,822 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,817 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,756 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,192 | 17.3 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,941 | 19.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sydell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sydell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sydell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sydell, and how old are they?
An estimated 104 Americans named Sydell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 84 years old and half are between 78 and 92. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 291 people named Sydell (279 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Sydell born?
The states with the most babies named Sydell are New York, Illinois and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 429 | not ranked | 7.9× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Sydell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sydell is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 7.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Sydell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sydell
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 Sydell and names like it
- Compare Sydell and NelmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sSydell peaked in 1929.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sydell since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Sydell.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Sydell alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with SMost given first.