Sidonie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sidonie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sidon, the Phoenician city; lit.
- FRFrance≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.3K
- MGMadagascar≈1 in 4K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Sidon, the Phoenician city; lit. “who supplies, nourisher.”
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sidonie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #165 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Sidonie | 15 |
| MG Madagascar | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 2 | Sidonie | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 8.9K | Sidonie | 246 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Sidonie | 8 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sidonie | 9 |
| US United States | — | 408 | 1 in 815K | 403 | Sidonie | 53 |
| GF French Guiana | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana). 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)
Sidonie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Féminin de Sidoine; origine hébraïque, du nom de la ville de Sidon (Liban).
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin *Sidonia*, « de Sidon ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin Sidonius, « de Sidon ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, ) Sidonia: weibl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs (»Frau aus Sidon«; Sidon, jetzt Saida, war im Altertum eine phönizische
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Princess Sidonie of Saxonyb. 1834DESaxon Royal
- Coletteb. 1873FRnot in their usual nameFrench novelist (1873–1954)
- Tony Senderb. 1888DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician and journalist (1888-1964)
- Sidonie Goossensb. 1899GBBritish musician (1899–2004)
- Sidonie Dumasb. 1967FRFrench film producer (born 1967)
- Sidonie Mérieuxb. 1976FRFrench businesswoman
- Sidonie Bonnecb. 1977FRFrench television presenter
- Brie Larsonb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, singer and filmmaker (born 1989)
- Sidonie von Krosigkb. 1989DEGerman actress
- Sidonie Fiadanantsoab. 1999MGMalagasy athlete (born 1999)
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 46 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Sidonie come from?
- From Sidon, the Phoenician city; lit. “who supplies, nourisher.” Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Sidonie a male or female name?
- Sidonie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Sidonie?
- In the etymology graph, Sidonia and Sidony are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Sidonie mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Sidon, the Phoenician city; lit.
- In which country does Sidonie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Sidonie in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sidonie.
- How common is the name Sidonie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 408 people named Sidonie in 2020, about 1 in 815 thousand residents.
- How common is Sidonie compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Sidonie is the 165th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sidonie?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sidonieThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sidonie” — the 165th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.