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Kedrick

#12,989 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kedrick has been given to 2,184 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #12,989 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Kedrick, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kedrick over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kedrick: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kedrick means

Kedrick is a given name.

The naming story behind Kedrick

Wikidata records Kedrick as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q96477644, 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, 2,184 boys were recorded with the name Kedrick between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1978; its best national rank was #1,036 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,143 in 2020 to #12,989 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,809 in 2015 to #12,989 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.

How common is Kedrick?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,989
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kedrick 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kedrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kedricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kedrick was born before 1991 — so the typical Kedrick is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,159
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Choose a decade

1980s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (478).

Is Kedrick 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
−5,939
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,846
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,180
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.0%
Peak was 1978 (71)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,036
1978

Spellings of Kedrick

Kedrick is not the most common spelling — Derrick is, with 32.8% against Kedrick's 0.49%.

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 Kedrick is used

Across 1910–2025, Kedrick was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 71,438 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 10,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Kedrick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kedrick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,989
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,846
Best rank ever
#1,036
1978
Peak year
1978
71 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,184
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kedrick

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

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Names with a curve like Kedrick

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

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Sibling names for Kedrick

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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