Cedrick
Cedrick was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,323 among boys’ names; 6,352 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,940 Americans named Cedrick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 26 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cedrick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cedrick?
#3,323 among boys’ names, 2025
Cedrick fell from #2,280 in 2015 to #3,323 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.3 to 20.5 per million.
200 babies in 1978, the peak
Cedrick peaked in 1978, when 200 boys were given it, #594 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,323 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,719 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,358 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,925 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,190 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,426 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,738 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 53 | #2,447 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,719 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,891 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,280 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,177 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,856 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,602 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 56 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,057 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 78 | #1,863 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 75 | #1,919 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 85 | #1,745 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 84 | #1,687 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 77 | #1,723 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 77 | #1,673 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 74 | #1,671 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,392 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,400 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,245 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,117 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 119 | #1,082 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,115 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 142 | #921 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 119 | #1,014 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,067 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 122 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 124 | #965 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 119 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 152 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 169 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 131 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 140 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 132 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 129 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 158 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 170 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 180 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 173 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 197 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 149 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 200 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 150 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 155 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 139 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 152 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 127 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 114 | #741 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 98 | #817 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 91 | #845 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 79 | #862 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,190 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 66 | #886 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 55 | #985 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,236 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 34 | #1,353 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,124 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 32 | #1,389 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,351 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 28 | #1,525 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,869 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,686 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,637 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,024 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,798 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,688 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cedrick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cedrick has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 74 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cedrick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cedrick, and how old are they?
5,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,352 Americans ever recorded as Cedrick. The median Cedrick alive today is 38 years old; half are between 26 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 4,810 people named Cedrick (20 women and girls, 4,790 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 215 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,660 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 571 |
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 Cedrick born?
The states with the most babies named Cedrick are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 884 | #2,330 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 698 | #1,669 | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 470 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Mississippi | 362 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| Alabama | 318 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Louisiana | 318 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| California | 301 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 207 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 168 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 148 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Cedrick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cedrick is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1951 it was given 5.0 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 Cedrick with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Cedrick?
Cedrick is a less common spelling of Cedric: SSA has recorded 6,352 Cedrick and 42,382 Cedric since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,602 babies since 1880, Cedrick is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 255 babies (14%), again the second 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 Cedrick
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 Cedrick and names like it
- Compare Cedrick and CedricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCedrick peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cedrick since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Cedrick.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cedrick alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.