Syndey — girls' name
318 babies named Syndey in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Syndey was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Syndey in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Syndey
The Social Security Administration has registered 318 babies named Syndey between 1988 and 2010, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Syndey currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Syndey performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 156 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Syndey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Syndey in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Syndey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 318 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Syndey at a glance
Last recorded 2010Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Syndey popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2010–1988
- Peak year (2001)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2010.
318 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 30 births in a single year.
Syndey by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 156 births that decade — 49% of Syndey's all-time total
Syndey decade highlights
- Peak decade 156 births
- Runner-up 142 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Syndey's strongest decade
156 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Syndey by state
Where Syndey concentrates geographically — total births since 1988
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 1.9% |
6 of 318 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1988–2010 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.