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UnisexOrigin: internationalIn Israel: hardly given today

SydneeIn Hebrew: סידני · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

Sydnee (Hebrew: סידני) is a unisex name of international origin. 254 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Its peak year was 1952, with 11 babies.

People in Israel
254
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
—
not in the list
Peak year
1952
11 babies
USA
—
not in the SSA list

Writing and saying Sydnee

In Hebrew letters the name is סידני, read right to left. Sydnee is the Latin spelling recorded in Wikidata; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms.

We have no sourced English explanation of this name yet, so we do not guess one. The Hebrew page has our Hebrew notes when there are any.

Sydnee by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Sydnee: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Sydnee

How do you write Sydnee in Hebrew?

Sydnee is written סידני in Hebrew. Hebrew is read right to left.

How many people in Israel are named Sydnee?

254 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name סידני: 60 women and 194 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Sydnee a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 24% of the people named סידני are women and 76% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.