Side
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from OE sīde ‘side, slope’; earliest attested Herbert de Side 1221 AssGl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Side is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.9M(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 680K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 680K (inferred from the name graph)
120 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE sīde ‘side, slope’; earliest attested Herbert de Side 1221 AssGl
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Side counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 120 | 1 in 1.8M | 212 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 6.9M | 210 | Side | 133 |
| IT Italy | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | 1 | — | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 15 | 1 in 680K | 15 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Side | 6 |
| CL Chile | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 1 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
120 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Side is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, bandage (medical binding or strip of cloth used as a blindfold)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of sīdō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, side; a bounding straight edge or surface
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a page (e.g. in a book)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zhang Sideb. 1915CNChinese soldier (1915-1944)
- Yang Sideb. 1921CNChinese major general
- Richard Sideb. 1953CACanadian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 212 | #11,247 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 210 | #93,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 210 | #88,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 188 | #91,004 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 176 | #27,156 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 120 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 102 | #36,254 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 95 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 80 | #74,802 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 65 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 30 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 25 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Side mean?
- Recorded meaning: from OE sīde ‘side, slope’; earliest attested Herbert de Side 1221 AssGl
- In which country does Side have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 120 people named Side, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Side most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Side is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 680 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Side?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 120 people named Side in 2022, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sideThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Side”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.