Sedric
#13,564 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sedric has been given to 1,505 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #13,564 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 46 recorded.
Babies named Sedric, 2025
1 in 663,000
Sedric over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sedric?
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
- #13,564
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sedric sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sedric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sedrics were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sedric was born before 1984 — so the typical Sedric is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 23.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,478
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (356).
Is Sedric 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −7,639
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,716
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.9%
- Peak was 1982 (46)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Sedric
Sedric is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 90.7% against Sedric's 0.15%.
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 Sedric is used
Across 1910–2025, Sedric was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 143,573 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 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. Sedric has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sedric around the world
Where Sedric 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.
- France1970–1973#1,458in 1973
- South Australia2011–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sedric by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sedric
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sedric
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.