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Sedgwick vs Sedric

American parents have registered 1,505 Sedrics since 1880, against 44 Sedgwicks. Sedric is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sedgwick against Sedric, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sedgwick Sedric

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 75 years in which either name was published, Sedric for 74 years and Sedgwick for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Sedgwick Sedric
Total US births 441,505
Most in one year 846
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 401,400
Median age today 5739
Peak year 19541982
Best rank 2,942nd boys1,395th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19541919
Girls / boys 0 / 440 / 1,505

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 Sedgwicks alive today are over 57; half the Sedrics are over 39. That is 18 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: Sedgwick and Sedric.