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Sedrick

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sedrick has been given to 3,511 babies in the U.S. since 1933. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Sedrick, 2024

1 in 334,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sedrick: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sedrick means

Sedrick is a given name.

The naming story behind Sedrick

Wikidata records Sedrick as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q66877704, 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, 3,511 boys were recorded with the name Sedrick between 1933 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 129 in 1976; its best national rank was #736 in 1976.

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 Sedrick?

Sedrick had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sedrick 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 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sedrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sedricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sedrick was born before 1984 — so the typical Sedrick is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,489
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Choose a decade

1970s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (974).

Is Sedrick 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (129)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#736
1976

Spellings of Sedrick

Sedrick is not the most common spelling — Derrick is, with 33.0% against Sedrick's 0.80%.

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 Sedrick is used

Across 1910–2025, Sedrick was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 55,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 16,667
  3. 3Alabama1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

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

Sedrick around the world

Where Sedrick 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
    2018–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    1973–1977
    #1,981
    in 1977
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Sedrick

People whose public names include Sedrick, 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.

Sedrick in other languages

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

CedricCedrick

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

Sedrick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#736
1976
Peak year
1976
129 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,511
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sedrick

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

SederickDedrickSedricGarrickKedrickMerrickJerrickCedrickMavrickSeddrickDarrickFinnickRodrickKenrickChadrickDomenickYannickEdrickSedgwickTerrickBrodrickHendrickWarrickEmerick

Names with a curve like Sedrick

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

JaymeTorranceTorrenceTremayneBrandyAntioneDemetricRonnellLashawnTavaresGarrickKristoffer

Sibling names for Sedrick

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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