Cedrick
Last seen for girls in 1983 at #10,275 · #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 200 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,342since 1951
Cedrick over time
Rank among boys' names. Cedrick has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,314 | 35 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,715 | 48 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,347 | 35 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,919 | 43 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,180 | 37 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,418 | 32 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,736 | 46 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,445 | 53 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,715 | 45 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,885 | 41 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,276 | 58 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,175 | 62 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,848 | 40 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,594 | 47 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,284 | 56 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,057 | 66 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,861 | 78 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,916 | 75 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,741 | 85 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,684 | 84 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,725 | 77 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,671 | 77 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,673 | 74 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,395 | 94 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,400 | 89 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,247 | 106 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,118 | 118 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,085 | 119 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,116 | 113 | |
| 1996 | — | #922 | 142 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,016 | 119 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,070 | 109 | |
| 1993 | — | #979 | 122 | |
| 1992 | — | #967 | 124 | |
| 1991 | — | #981 | 119 | |
| 1990 | — | #828 | 152 | |
| 1989 | — | #758 | 169 | |
| 1988 | — | #827 | 131 | |
| 1987 | — | #777 | 140 | |
| 1986 | — | #789 | 132 | |
| 1985 | — | #781 | 129 | |
| 1984 | — | #692 | 158 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #655 | 170 |
| 1982 | — | #642 | 180 | |
| 1981 | — | #647 | 173 | |
| 1980 | — | #622 | 197 | |
| 1979 | — | #701 | 149 | |
| 1978 | — | #594 | 200 | |
| 1977 | — | #692 | 150 | |
| 1976 | — | #658 | 155 | |
| 1975 | — | #703 | 139 | |
| 1974 | — | #654 | 152 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #714 | 127 |
| 1972 | — | #740 | 114 | |
| 1971 | — | #816 | 98 | |
| 1970 | — | #845 | 91 | |
| 1969 | — | #861 | 79 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,183 | 41 | |
| 1967 | — | #885 | 66 | |
| 1966 | — | #984 | 55 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,233 | 38 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,350 | 34 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,121 | 47 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,387 | 32 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,349 | 35 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,523 | 28 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,865 | 19 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,677 | 22 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,634 | 24 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,015 | 16 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
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| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cedrick! It came in at #2,662, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1952, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cedrick is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#225 · 1 in 1,352
- Alabama#286 · 1 in 2,454
- Louisiana#326 · 1 in 2,181
- Georgia#339 · 1 in 3,022
- South Carolina#362 · 1 in 3,008
Best ever in a state: #148 in Mississippi, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #225 | 14 | 1 in 1,352 |
| Alabama | #286 | 11 | 1 in 2,454 |
| Louisiana | #326 | 16 | 1 in 2,181 |
| Georgia | #339 | 13 | 1 in 3,022 |
| South Carolina | #362 | 7 | 1 in 3,008 |
| Florida | #365 | 17 | 1 in 3,220 |
| Tennessee | #399 | 7 | 1 in 4,694 |
| North Carolina | #460 | 7 | 1 in 5,366 |
| Texas | #469 | 27 | 1 in 4,567 |
| Illinois | #800 | 6 | 1 in 13,958 |
| California | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 35,946 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cedrick
- 599 spots since 2024 (#2,715 → #3,314)
- 104 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #3,314)
- 1,038 spots since 2015 (#2,276 → #3,314)
- Biggest jump: 322 spots in 1969 (#1,183 → #861)
- Biggest drop: 298 spots in 1968 (#885 → #1,183)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1978 at #594 (200 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1969–1993
- Highest: 1 in 8,209 boys born in 1978 were named Cedrick (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.9% of all boys named Cedrick (1,579) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 113 | #1,634 (1957) | #2,372 |
| 1960s | 455 | #861 (1969) | #1,188 |
| 1970s | 1,375 | #594 (1978) | #712 |
| 1980s | 1,579 | #622 (1980) | #719 |
| 1990s | 1,237 | #828 (1990) | #1,008 |
| 2000s | 839 | #1,247 (2000) | #1,631 |
| 2010s | 514 | #2,057 (2010) | #2,502 |
| 2020s | 230 | #2,715 (2024) | #3,149 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cedrick in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 11,554 of them was named Cedrick, which outranked 90.1% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.