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Sedonia vs Sedrick

American parents have registered 3,511 Sedricks since 1880, against 571 Sedonias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sedonia 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

Of the 130 years in which either name was published, Sedrick for 75 years and Sedonia for 55 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Sedonia Sedrick
Total US births 5713,511
Most in one year 18129
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1403,300
Median age today 7540
Peak year 19341976
Best rank 1,834th girls734th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18831933
Girls / boys 571 / 00 / 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 Sedonias alive today are over 75; half the Sedricks are over 40. That is 35 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: Sedonia and Sedrick.