Cedric
The boy's name Cedric has been in the national records since 1890, with 42,382 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,051st. About 37,000 Cedrics are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cedric boys named Cedric
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 42,382
- Estimated living today
- 37,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 239th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,051st
- First recorded
- 1890
- Girls / boys
- 278 / 42,104
How old the living Cedrics are
born that year still alive today
Of the 42,382 babies given the name since 1890, about 37,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 4,600 of them are children and 2,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Welsh
Invented by Walter Scott for Ivanhoe, possibly misread for Cerdic, name of a Saxon king, anglicized from Welsh caredig (“beloved”), in which case. Alternatively Scott based Cedric on the Welsh name Cedrych (“spectacular bounty”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cedrics
- Cédric Soares (born 1991)Portuguese association football player
- Cédric Villani (born 1973)French mathematician and politician
- Cédric Carrasso (born 1981)French footballer
- Cédric Pioline (born 1969)French tennis player
- Cédric Sorhaindo (born 1984)French handball player
- Cédric Klapisch (born 1961)French film director, actor and screenwriter
- Cédric Djeugoué (born 1992)Cameroonian footballer
- Cédric Zesiger (born 1998)Swiss association football player
People named Cedric with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cedric is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cedric is most concentrated in Mississippi (4.7×), Alabama (4.1×), Louisiana (3.6×), Georgia (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1982
The most popular boys’ names the year Cedric peaked:
Cedric elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Cedric +2 spellings | 152,745 | 6th |
| Belgium boys | Cédric +1 spelling | 4,383 | 40th |
| Switzerland boys | Cedric +1 spelling | 2,369 | 38th |
| England and Wales boys | Cedric | 315 | 825th |
| Scotland boys | Cedric | 8 | 614th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Cedric: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Cedric | 1,305 | 0.105% | 36th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Cédric | 792 | 0.064% | 97th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Cédric | 201 | 0.046% | 80th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Cedric | 42 | 0.010% | 133rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Cédric | 12 | 0.018% | 113th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Cedric | 9 | 0.014% | 91st |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Cedric | 6 | 0.161% | 18th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Cédric | 2 | 0.054% | 22nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Cedric is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.21% of children were given it – 429 of them.
Cedric: rank by region
In 2025, Cedric was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Cédric | 464 | 12 |
In 2023, Cedric was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Cedric | 9 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Cedric appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (341st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Cedric by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 13 | 405th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Cedric among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Cedric +1 spelling | 74 | 109 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Cedric lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 318 men called Cedric were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Cedric | 14 | 0.034 | 1,683 |
| Barcelona | Cedric | 83 | 0.028 | 1,761 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Cedric | 15 | 0.028 | 2,547 |
| Balears, Illes | Cedric | 17 | 0.027 | 2,015 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Cedric | 8 | 0.026 | 1,973 |
| Lleida | Cedric | 6 | 0.025 | 2,057 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Cedric against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.