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Kedra vs Kedrick

American parents have registered 2,184 Kedricks since 1880, against 548 Kedras. Kedrick is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kedra against Kedrick, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kedra Kedrick

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 76 years in which either name was published, Kedrick for 74 years and Kedra for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Kedra Kedrick
Total US births 5482,184
Most in one year 3171
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 5302,100
Median age today 4433
Peak year 19791978
Best rank 2,795th girls1,034th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19621927
Girls / boys 548 / 00 / 2,184

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 Kedricks 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 Kedrick.