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Sedgwick vs Sedrick

American parents have registered 3,511 Sedricks since 1880, against 44 Sedgwicks. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sedgwick against Sedrick, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sedgwick Sedrick

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

Sedrick has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1933 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1954, when Sedgwick had 8 and Sedrick had 9.

Side by side

  Sedgwick Sedrick
Total US births 443,511
Most in one year 8129
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 403,300
Median age today 5740
Peak year 19541976
Best rank 2,942nd boys734th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19541933
Girls / boys 0 / 440 / 3,511

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 Sedricks are over 40. That is 17 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 Sedrick.