Cedar
Cedar is given to both girls and boys: 60 girls and 160 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,827 among girls’ names and #1,244 among boys’, #2,077 among all names counting both); 4,091 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,040 Americans named Cedar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cedar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cedar?
#1,244 among boys’ names, 2025
Cedar rose from #1,503 in 2015 to #1,244 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 57.4 to 93.7 per million.
271 babies in 2022, the peak
Cedar peaked in 2022, when 271 babies were given it (188 boys, #1,125 among boys’ names). The 220 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 81% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,827 | 160 | #1,244 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,393 | 173 | #1,190 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,274 | 155 | #1,248 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,259 | 188 | #1,125 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,515 | 153 | #1,246 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,347 | 158 | #1,201 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,863 | 161 | #1,190 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,256 | 145 | #1,263 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,971 | 136 | #1,324 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,722 | 134 | #1,331 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,857 | 110 | #1,503 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,192 | 75 | #1,922 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,721 | 69 | #1,993 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,140 | 62 | #2,156 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,947 | 58 | #2,236 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,765 | 50 | #2,474 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,420 | 41 | #2,904 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,674 | 41 | #2,886 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,317 | 47 | #2,613 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,984 | 48 | #2,516 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,058 | 26 | #3,628 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,512 | 27 | #3,462 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,112 | 27 | #3,367 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,930 | 24 | #3,570 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,861 | 39 | #2,490 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,674 | 19 | #4,075 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,891 | 23 | #3,386 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,115 | 26 | #3,027 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,857 | 19 | #3,612 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,093 | 19 | #3,560 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,048 | 10 | #5,551 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,227 | 12 | #4,832 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,679 | 9 | #5,824 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,657 | 10 | #5,281 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,063 | 9 | #5,571 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,381 | 6 | #7,302 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,837 | 13 | #4,050 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,099 | 7 | #5,846 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,568 | 12 | #3,753 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,212 | 5 | #6,874 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,533 | 5 | #6,675 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,992 | 10 | #3,959 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,504 | 5 | #6,377 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,980 | 8 | #4,654 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,299 | 9 | #4,197 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,011 | 11 | #3,650 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,409 | 10 | #3,842 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,708 | 8 | #4,208 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,458 | 19 | #2,378 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,386 | 13 | #2,965 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,031 | 6 | #4,879 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,331 | 7 | #4,245 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,580 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,512 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cedar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,091 Americans recorded as Cedar, 36% are girls and 64% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cedar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cedar, and how old are they?
4,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,091 Americans ever recorded as Cedar. The median Cedar alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,568 people named Cedar (986 women and girls, 1,582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,683 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 156 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 308 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 972 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cedar born?
The states with the most babies named Cedar are Washington, California and Utah, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington and Utah are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 15 | #477 | 3.0× |
| California | 13 | #1,370 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 13 | #521 | 2.7× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,571 | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 9 | #406 | 4.2× |
| Michigan | 8 | #844 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 6 | #778 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,668 | 0.1× |
| Idaho | 5 | #446 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 5 | #786 | 0.1× |
Where Cedar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cedar is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1972 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cedar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,649 babies since 1880, Cedar is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 220 of their 229 babies (96%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cedar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cedar and names like it
- Compare Cedar and KedarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCedar peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cedar since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Cedar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cedar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.