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It's been used for men for a couple hundred years, and on women for nearly as long. Right now, on girls it's kind of trendy, and on boys it's very outdated. YOu don't see a male Sidney under the age of sixty, it seems, but you see female Sidneys/Sydneys from birth right up to old age.

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When I was little I liked a series of books about "ALl of a Kind Family." They were written by Sydney Taylor, a woman, who as near as I can figure was born right around the turn of the last century.

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I consider it to be truly unisex, because at one time it was as common boys as it is now for girls.

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However, having said all that... I don't like the name. The Sid sound is sly and sneaky to me. I picutre a male Sidney as being a smooth-talking, kind of oily, used-car-salesman/shyster lawyer guy. On a female I picture a snobby, "socialite" type woman who doesn't work, her whole occupation is buying things adn going to parties.

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The Sid sound also puts me in mind of SIDS, and Sid Vicious. Sidney Biddle Barrows, the "Mayflower Madam" (she really is the type of Sidney I described, and got into trouble many years ago for running a call girl ring.)

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There is Sidney Poitier, and some other Sidneys, and I know two Sydneys (both female) who I like, but I still don't like the name.