Sid

Where Sid comes from

The dictionaries list Sid as a given name — a short form of the male given names Sidney and Siddhartha — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #416
    19 babies named Sid — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1922
    Sid Caesar born
    American comic actor and writer
  5. 1954
    Sid Meier born
    Canadian-American game programmer and designer
In the dictionary
  • A short form of the male given names Sidney and Siddhartha.
  • Alternative form of Syd (“unisex given name”).
  • A minor river in East Devon, England, which flows into the English Channel at Sidmouth.
Namesakes
  • Sid Meier · Canadian-American game programmer and designer, born 1954
  • Sid Caesar · American comic actor and writer, 1922–2014
  • Sid Haig · American actor, 1939–2019
  • Sid Wilson · American disc jockey, born 1977
  • Sid Watkins · English neurosurgeon and Formula One doctor, 1928–2012

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.