Sye
Sye was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,650 among boys’ names; 118 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sye mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sye is “a male or female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sye?
#13,650 among boys’ names, 2025
Sye entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,650 in 2025.
13 babies in 2007, the peak
Sye peaked in 2007, when 13 boys were given it, #6,556 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,650 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,237 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,662 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,585 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,610 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,005 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,887 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,556 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,630 | 4.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,802 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #12,519 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #12,082 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,088 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,287 | 4.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,975 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,621 | 12.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sye has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sye, and how old are they?
An estimated 101 Americans named Sye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 315 people named Sye (96 women and girls, 219 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Sye rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,408 babies since 1880, Sye is the fourth most given (8.4% of them).
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.
More about Sye and names like it
- Compare Sye and SyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSye peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Sye.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sye alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.