Cedar — #1200 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cedar

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,464 babies named Cedar between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cedar currently holds the #1200 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 188 babies received it in a single year. Cedar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,402 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cedar performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 999 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Cedar shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 218 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Washington and Oregon. In total, SSA state-level files list Cedar in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cedar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,464 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.