Sydny

History & Origin

Sydny is a respelling of Sydney, which began as an English surname and place name meaning 'wide meadow' or 'wide riverside island', from Old English sid and related roots. Once mainly a boys' name honoring the surname, Sydney became a leading girls' choice by the nineties, and pared-down spellings like Sydny rode the trend.

This spelling stayed rare, given to only a few dozen girls a year around its peak near two-thousand and gone from the record within about a decade. A girl named Sydny then is now a young adult, so it reads as a turn-of-the-millennium respelling rather than a name enjoying a fresh comeback.