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Sidney

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname

1) From a Norman baronial name from Saint-Denis in France [1] [2]

2) From an Old English place name: Old English sīdan = 'wide' and ēg = 'island in a river, riverside meadow' [1]

Related Names

Sidney ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Sidny ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Sydney ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Sid

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sidney
Genitive: Sidneys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sidney
Genitive: Sidneyn
Partitive: Sidneytä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sidney
Genitive: Sidneys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sidney
Genitive: Sidneys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
125 307 35 61 90 246
Denmark Denmark[5]
40
n.a.
 7
n.a.
 33
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 56
n.a.
 7
n.a.
 49
Iceland Iceland[7]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
32
n.a.
 9
n.a.
 23
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Sidney.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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