Girls' name · since 1973
Cedra
Cedra has 116 recorded births since 1973 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,495 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,329 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 116
- born since 1973
- 2020s
- peak decade
Cedra currently ranks #15329 among girls' names in America, with 116 babies recorded since 1973.
Cedra has 116 recorded births among girls since 1973, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15329 as of the latest data, more common than 11% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 2025.
- #25,495 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,329 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 116 born since 1973
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cedra ranks #25,495 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,329 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 116 born since 1973, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,495 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,329 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 116
- born since 1973
- 2020s
- peak decade
Cedra's 116 recorded births place it above 64.64% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Cedra compares
116 27th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Cedra's all-time total is 69% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Cedra | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 116 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Cedra's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Cedra splits its recorded history at 2002: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1973 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Cedra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 53 years of records
Cedra by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (27 births, 23% of the file).
2020s was Cedra's strongest decade.
27 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 23% of all-time use.
Cedra births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
15 births
- 1980s
1980s
16 births
- 1990s
1990s
21 births
- 2000s
2000s
23 births
- 2010s
2010s
14 births
- 2020s
2020s
27 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 27 births (23% of all-time use).
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Similar peak year (~2024)
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1973–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cedra draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.