Kedar
Kedar was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,593 among boys’ names; 558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kedar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kedar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kedar is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit केदार (kedāra).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kedar?
#8,593 among boys’ names, 2025
Kedar fell from #6,149 in 2015 to #8,593 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 5.3 per million.
33 babies in 1998, the peak
Kedar peaked in 1998, when 33 boys were given it, #2,576 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,593 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,672 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,000 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,506 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,132 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,401 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,476 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,380 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,494 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,220 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,149 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,222 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,306 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,547 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,807 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,545 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,276 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,465 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,585 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,298 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,735 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,982 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,712 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,402 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,672 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,135 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,319 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,576 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,645 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,749 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,176 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,960 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,580 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,066 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,915 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,807 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,459 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,650 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,203 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,273 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,208 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,816 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,323 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,724 | 3.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,124 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,810 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,207 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kedar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kedar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kedar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kedar, and how old are they?
An estimated 543 Americans named Kedar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,058 people named Kedar (23 women and girls, 1,035 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 497 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,649 babies since 1880, Kedar is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 229 babies (3.9%), 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 Kedar
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 Kedar and names like it
- Compare Kedar and CedarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKedar peaked in 1998.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kedar since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Kedar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Kedar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kedar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.