meaning of the name sydney
For other uses of Sidney or Sydney, see Sidney (disambiguation) and Sydney (disambiguation). Sidney or Sydney is an English surname. It is probably derived from an Anglo-Saxon locational name, [Ã¦t Ã¾Ç£re] sÄ«dan Ä«ege = [at the] wide island/watermeadow (in the dative case). There is also a folk etymological derivation from the French place name Saint-Denis.