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Kedar

#8,593 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Kedar has been given to 558 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #8,593 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Kedar, 2025

1 in 368,000

Kedar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kedar: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Kedar means

Kedar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kedar is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 558 boys were recorded with the name Kedar between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,576 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,401 in 2020 to #8,593 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,149 in 2015 to #8,593 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kedar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,593
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kedar 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kedar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kedars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kedar was born before 2001 — so the typical Kedar is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
558
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1990s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Kedar 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
+79
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−192
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,444
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.3%
Peak was 1998 (33)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,576
1998

Spellings of Kedar

Kedar is not the most common spelling — Edgar is, with 52.7% against Kedar's 0.19%.

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 Kedar is used

Across 1910–2025, Kedar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 904,604 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Kedar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kedar around the world

Where Kedar 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
    2023–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kedar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,593
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 192
Best rank ever
#2,576
1998
Peak year
1998
33 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
558
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Kedar

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

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Sibling names for Kedar

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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