girls:
278 births since 1946
#5438 (5th percentile)
boys:
41.6k births since 1890
#550 (88th percentile)
overall:
41.9k births since 1890
#1205 (84th percentile)
The name Cedric is the #1,205 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,921 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 84.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #550 (88.0% percentile) for all time with 41,643 births since 1890. For girls, it ranks #5,438 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 278 births since 1946.
Cedric first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (1890 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Cedric is available in 127 out of the 134 years between 1890 and 2023 (127 years for boys and 31 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cedric has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cedric reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 66.9% percentile (ranked #224) with 528 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 554 births per million (ranked 65.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Cedric ranks #711 for boys (22.0% percentile) with 112 births per million, which is 20.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cedric reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #732) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cedric".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cedric. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Cedric is pronounced as SEH-drihk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-drihk, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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