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Cedrick

#3,323 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Cedrick has been given to 6,352 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #3,323 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 200 recorded.

Babies named Cedrick, 2025

1 in 94,700

Cedrick over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cedrick: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cedrick means

Cedrick is a given name.

The naming story behind Cedrick

Wikidata records Cedrick as a given name. The entity identifier is Q5057170, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,342 boys were recorded with the name Cedrick between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 200 in 1978; its best national rank was #594 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,426 in 2020 to #3,323 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,280 in 2015 to #3,323 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Cedrick between 1973 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1973; its best national rank was #8,601 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Cedrick?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,323
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cedrick sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cedrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cedricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cedrick was born before 1987 — so the typical Cedrick is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,342
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (1,579).

Is Cedrick rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−604
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+103
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,043
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.5%
Peak was 1978 (200)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#594
1978

Spellings of Cedrick

Cedrick is not the most common spelling — Derrick is, with 32.8% against Cedrick's 1.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cedrick is used

Across 1910–2025, Cedrick was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 25,987 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,882
  2. 2Florida1 in 8,333
  3. 3Alabama1 in 10,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 10,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 10,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 14,286
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 20,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cedrick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cedrick around the world

Where Cedrick ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1959–2022
    #6,270
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cedrick

People whose public names include Cedrick, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cedrick in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cedrick. Linked forms have their own page here.

CedricSedrick

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cedrick by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,323
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 103
Best rank ever
#594
1978
Peak year
1978
200 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,342
Count in 2025
35

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,601
1973
Peak year
1973
5 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cedrick

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CederickMerrickGarrickDarrickRodrickDedrickDomenickKedrickJerrickCedarMavrickCedricFinnickChadwickKenrickChadrickYannickSedrickBroderickEdrickDerickCeddrickTerrickBrodrick

Names with a curve like Cedrick

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cedrick, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ToryAntioneDericArronGarrickLaronDerikBrannonJaymeAricJerodTyron

Sibling names for Cedrick

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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