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Cedrick

Boy · SED-rik

Cedrick is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 3,313th for boys in the US (35 babies).

What does Cedrick mean?

Spelling of Cedric, coined by Walter Scott, probably from Cerdic

A spelling of Cedric, which Sir Walter Scott gave to a Saxon lord in Ivanhoe (1819), probably adapting Cerdic.

Say it
SED-rik

Is Cedrick a girl's or a boy's name?

Cedrick is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 35 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cedrick in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,313among boys
Babies in 2025
35about 1 in 49,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 10% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 35 boys in the US were named Cedrick, making it the 3,313th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,416th. Its busiest year was 1978, with 200 boys. It first appears in the records in 1951.

Half of all the boys named Cedrick in the US since 1880 were born between 1977 and 1999, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 255 boys in the US were given Cedrick or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #854, up from #3,313 for this spelling alone.

1951Busiest: 200 in 19782025
Cedrick in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202535#3,313
202448#2,715
202335#3,345
202243#2,917
202137#3,179
202032#3,416
201946#2,735
201853#2,444
201745#2,714
201641#2,884
201558#2,275
201462#2,173
201340#2,846
201247#2,593
201156#2,283
201066#2,056
200978#1,860
200875#1,916
200785#1,741
200684#1,684
200577#1,722
200477#1,668
200374#1,670
200294#1,392
200189#1,396
2000106#1,244
1999118#1,116
1998119#1,082
1997113#1,113
1996142#920
1995119#1,013
1994109#1,066
1993122#976
1992124#964
1991119#975
1990152#824
1989169#755
1988131#826
1987140#777
1986132#789
1985129#781
1984158#692
1983170#655
1982180#642
1981173#647
1980197#622
1979149#701
1978200#594
1977150#692
1976155#658
1975139#703
1974152#654
1973127#714
1972114#740
197198#816
197091#845
196979#861
196841#1,183
196766#885
196655#984
196538#1,233
196434#1,349
196347#1,120
196232#1,386
196135#1,348
196028#1,522
195919#1,864
195822#1,676
195724#1,633
195616#2,014
19559#2,763
19546#3,450
19538#2,904
19520–
19519#2,660

Names like Cedrick

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Cedrick

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