Meaning not yet researched.
Cedrick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #594 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #594 in 1978; #3,324 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cedrick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,324 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #594.
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Cedrick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #594 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 200 (1978).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Cedrick, making it the 3,324th most common boys’ name of the year, down 605 places from #2,719 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 48 boys named Cedrick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #594, reached in 1978. That year also had the most boys given the name: 200. For comparison, it was #2,281 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cedrick in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 9 babies. In all, 6,352 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,584 babies named Cedrick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 415 US boys were named Cedrick; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cedric (42,382 babies since 1880) and Sedrick (3,511 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Seddrick are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Seddrick (80).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cedrick in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 35 | #3,324 |
| 2024 | — | — | 48 | #2,719 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,360 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,927 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,192 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,428 |
| 2019 | — | — | 46 | #2,739 |
| 2018 | — | — | 53 | #2,448 |
| 2017 | — | — | 45 | #2,720 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,892 |
| 2015 | — | — | 58 | #2,281 |
| 2014 | — | — | 62 | #2,179 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,858 |
| 2012 | — | — | 47 | #2,603 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,289 |
| 2010 | — | — | 66 | #2,058 |
| 2009 | — | — | 78 | #1,864 |
| 2008 | — | — | 75 | #1,919 |
| 2007 | — | — | 85 | #1,745 |
| 2006 | — | — | 84 | #1,687 |
| 2005 | — | — | 77 | #1,726 |
| 2004 | — | — | 77 | #1,676 |
| 2003 | — | — | 74 | #1,674 |
| 2002 | — | — | 94 | #1,395 |
| 2001 | — | — | 89 | #1,404 |
| 2000 | — | — | 106 | #1,248 |
| 1999 | — | — | 118 | #1,119 |
| 1998 | — | — | 119 | #1,085 |
| 1997 | — | — | 113 | #1,118 |
| 1996 | — | — | 142 | #923 |
| 1995 | — | — | 119 | #1,017 |
| 1994 | — | — | 109 | #1,071 |
| 1993 | — | — | 122 | #979 |
| 1992 | — | — | 124 | #968 |
| 1991 | — | — | 119 | #982 |
| 1990 | — | — | 152 | #828 |
| 1989 | — | — | 169 | #758 |
| 1988 | — | — | 131 | #828 |
| 1987 | — | — | 140 | #779 |
| 1986 | — | — | 132 | #790 |
| 1985 | — | — | 129 | #781 |
| 1984 | — | — | 158 | #693 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,506 | 170 | #655 |
| 1982 | — | — | 180 | #642 |
| 1981 | — | — | 173 | #647 |
| 1980 | — | — | 197 | #622 |
| 1979 | — | — | 149 | #701 |
| 1978 | — | — | 200 | #594 |
| 1977 | — | — | 150 | #692 |
| 1976 | — | — | 155 | #658 |
| 1975 | — | — | 139 | #703 |
| 1974 | — | — | 152 | #654 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,603 | 127 | #714 |
| 1972 | — | — | 114 | #741 |
| 1971 | — | — | 98 | #817 |
| 1970 | — | — | 91 | #845 |
| 1969 | — | — | 79 | #862 |
| 1968 | — | — | 41 | #1,190 |
| 1967 | — | — | 66 | #886 |
| 1966 | — | — | 55 | #985 |
| 1965 | — | — | 38 | #1,236 |
| 1964 | — | — | 34 | #1,354 |
| 1963 | — | — | 47 | #1,125 |
| 1962 | — | — | 32 | #1,390 |
| 1961 | — | — | 35 | #1,352 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,526 |
| 1959 | — | — | 19 | #1,870 |
| 1958 | — | — | 22 | #1,687 |
| 1957 | — | — | 24 | #1,638 |
| 1956 | — | — | 16 | #2,025 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,799 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,500 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,940 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,689 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).