Name: Sidney
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Sidney is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Sidney are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Sidney is: Wide meadow, Contraction of St. Denys.
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Numerology of the first name Sidney: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Sidney is ranked on the 1,807th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 237600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.004% of the population. The name Sidney has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Sidney for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Sidney is 20 February.
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History and Origin
English: transferred use of the surname, which is usually said to be a Norman baronial name from Saint-Denis in France. However, at least in the case of the family of the poet and soldier Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86), it appears to have a more humble origin, being derived from lands in Surrey named as the ‘wide meadow’ (Old English sīdan wide (dative case) + ēg island in a river, riverside meadow). The popularity of the male name increased considerably in the 19th century, probably under the influence of Sidney Carton, hero of Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859). As a female name it is perhaps in part a contsracted form of Sidony, and coincidentally represents a metathesized form of Sindy, but this use is quite rare.
Variant: Sydney.
Short form: Sid.
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