Kedra vs Kedric
American parents have registered 960 Kedrics since 1880, against 548 Kedras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kedra Kedric
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Kedric for 52 years and Kedra for 17 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1921–1965 Kedric ahead
- 1968–1987 Kedra ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1988–2024 Kedric ahead, apart from one short spell
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Kedra | Kedric | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 548 | 960 |
| Most in one year | 31 | 31 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 530 | 890 |
| Median age today | 44 | 33 |
| Peak year | 1979 | 1997 |
| Best rank | 2,795th girls | 2,546th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1962 | 1921 |
| Girls / boys | 548 / 0 | 0 / 960 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Kedras alive today are over 44; half the Kedrics are over 33. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kedra and Kedric.