How rare is the name Cedrick?

4,810 people in the United States have the first name Cedrick, about 1 in 62,792. It ranks #4,031 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CEDRICK

#4,031

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,810
About
1 in 62,792
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,810 people named Cedrick, 83.3% reported their origin as Black, 4.9% as White and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Cedrick peaked in 1978, when 200 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19512025
Peak year
1978
Births that year
200
In 2025*
35 ▼83%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 6,352 babies have been given the name since 1951. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Cedrick by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,618. The largest share of babies named Cedrick, 35.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1950s#5,475113
1960s#2,750455
1970s#1,6181,380
1980s#1,6631,584
1990s#2,3341,237
2000s#3,767839
2010s#5,552514
2020s#6,727230
Baby boom 1946–644.5%
Generation X 1965–8029.2%
Millennials 1981–9635.8%
Generation Z 1997–1221.4%
2013 and later9.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Cedrick is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cedrick has been most common in Mississippi (6.7×), Florida (4.8×), and Louisiana (4.1×), and least common in New York (0.25×).

4,240 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Cedrick

1 other first name also has 4,810 people.

#4,031 Menachem · 4,810

Either side of Cedrick

#4,029 Nannette · 4,813#4,030 Evalyn · 4,812#4,031 Menachem · 4,810#4,033 Kayle · 4,809

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cedrick, most common first.

#1,245 Cedric · 30,295#35,338 Cederick · 228#37,508 Cedrik · 208#49,509 Cederic · 125#51,177 Cedrica · 115#53,514 Cedricka · 98

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