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Sedona vs Sedric

American parents have registered 2,381 Sedonas since 1880, against 1,505 Sedrics. Sedona is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sedona 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 43 years and Sedona for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sedona Sedric
Total US births 2,3811,505
Most in one year 13246
Babies in 2025 1325
Estimated living today 2,4001,400
Median age today 1439
Peak year 20251982
Best rank 1,587th girls1,395th boys
Rank in 2025 1,587th12,008th
First recorded 19871919
Girls / boys 2,381 / 00 / 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 Sedrics alive today are over 39; half the Sedonas are over 14. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sedona and Sedric.