Syd vs Sydney

Syd

name
  • A diminutive of the unisex given name Sydney. 

Sydney

name
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname. 

  • The state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia. 

  • A seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island. 

  • A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Sidney. 

  • An unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. 

How often have the words Syd and Sydney occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )