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Hate it. Sorry but I deteste it so much - probably because I love it on a boy - I would call my son Sydney and I hate that it is popular on a girl.

I dislike it, mostly for being a male name in drag but mostly for its resemblance to Cindy. A lifetime of fielding the same questions (Is it a boy or a girl? Did you say Sydney or Cindy? Is that short for something? Is your name really Cynthia?) would seem very long.

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I know a Jennifer Sidney whose mn is the same as her father's. I suppose that's OK. At least she never has to use it.

It's not a favorite of mine. I don't think it sounds very attractive, it doesn't roll off the tongue easily, the nn Sid or Syd is obnoxious and sounds like a used-car salesman about to sell a lemon to an old lady. Also, and this may be just me, a lot of the time when I hear the name Sydney I have a hard time telling whether it's Sydney or Cindy.

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For the record I don't like Sidney/Sydney on a boy either. I picture a pale, blobby guy with terrible acne, squinting through smudgy thick glasses and his pants hiked up under his armpits and the tops of his socks showing.

I don't mind it, but I don't particularly like it. All the appeal of the name Sidney, for me personally, is reserved for the boy name, and the place name for girls just seems like a trend I guess I'm too old to enjoy. It's sort of like Lindsay, Kelsey, Ashley - a fading-fad preppy-ish name. And it's like Addison and Hayley will be in ten years or so. I think all these names will be like Amber and Robin, someday - they'll seem to indicate the woman's age group fairly accurately, and go out of fashion completely but at a moderate pace. There's a bright and studious girl of about 12ish living on my street, named Sydney (with sister Ashley), and she wears it well. It's not excessively spunkified, and it isn't one of those names that seems to me like it depends on the female bearer being conventionally attractive and feminine to keep it from sounding ugly (Addison, Harley, Brooklyn, London). To me Sydney is just preppy, and feminine in a very modern way.

It's cute, I imagine it on a child born in the late 90s/early 2000s.