Cedric

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cedric is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: [Ignoto].

rarermore common
  • MQMartinique1 in 448◐
  • GPGuadeloupe1 in 473
  • CMCameroon1 in 884

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈51K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
410 ●

877K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.5K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

CedricLatin · French●912K records
СедрикCyrillic · Russian●188 records
ΣεντρικGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cédric in CI Côte d’Ivoire.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

[Ignoto]

Sources 1

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Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Cedric is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#86130,224324K rec.1 in 11K30KCedric410
FR France#10519,285460K rec.1 in 3.5K133KCedric379
BE Belgium#7516,70615K rec.——Cedric147
PH Philippines—16,1575.8K rec.—14KCedric84
CA Canada#66713,3916.4K rec.—12Cedric130
GB United Kingdom—13,23311K rec.—4Cedric140
DE Germany#99710,8369.7K rec.—1Cedric162
CH Switzerland#966,3483.6K rec.——Cedric107
AU Australia—5,4185.1K rec.—3Cedric123
ZA South Africa#9314,1854.8K rec.—listedCedric62
CM Cameroon#312,2042.5K rec.——Cedric45
MQ Martinique#691,448151 rec.—15Cedric18

Roughly 30K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 11K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French912K66%
  • English353K26%
  • Spanish28K2%
  • German13K1%
  • 8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French912,06066%
English353,36026%
Spanish27,5662%
German13,4381%
7,9931%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cedric is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name8.8K records spelled Cedric2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Belgium

    Also written Cédric

  • Swahili given name5.3K records spelled Cedric4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Kenya, Philippines

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Cédric

  • Finnish given name1.7K records spelled Cedric5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Hungary, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Cédric

  • Albanian given name1.3K records spelled Cedric2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Albania, Switzerland

    Also written Cédric

  • Czech given name493 records spelled Cedric3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Cédric

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02505007501K190019502000977 · 1982

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Cedric in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1890–2025
Yearrecords
18905
18939
18955
18967
18978
18995
19037
19048
19055
19068
19077
190813
190913
19105
191117
191237
191344
191451
191557
191639
191740
191855
191950
192058
192159
192242
192332
192442
192534
192642
192751
192835
192945
193055
193144
193229
193338
193441
193541
193643
193755
193835
193947
194045
194164
194253
194360
194448
194554
194665
194773
194868
194996
1950133
1951154
1952156
1953206
1954224
1955254
1956280
1957401
1958406
1959520
1960533
1961639
1962693
1963695
1964742
1965700
1966726
1967717
1968689
1969701
1970879
1971860
1972896
1973883
1974903
1975871
1976861
1977903
1978793
1979827
1980909
1981909
1982977
1983804
1984885
1985843
1986706
1987679
1988642
1989643
1990612
1991598
1992554
1993589
1994548
1995573
1996592
1997573
1998552
1999476
2000512
2001520
2002481
2003425
2004384
2005382
2006416
2007429
2008374
2009340
2010317
2011300
2012302
2013268
2014293
2015261
2016237
2017211
2018216
2019209
2020222
2021208
2022236
2023209
2024245
2025209

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 129 years between 1890–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Adrian Boult, b. 1889Cedric Hardwicke, b. 1893Cedric Gibbons, b. 1893Cédric Pioline, b. 1969Cédric Villani, b. 1973Johan Micoud, b. 1973Cédric Jiménez, b. 1976Cedric Gervais, b. 1979Cédric Carrasso, b. 1981Cédric Bakambu, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 82 sources across 52 countries.

Official registers attesting Cedric
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2016133K#2,420
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202030K#1,245
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—502#2,494
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—318#6,320
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—308#2,972
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—288#4,042
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022249—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—248#21,756
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—225#3,260
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024211#1,820
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025209—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025190#405

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 730 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cedric?
We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Cedric (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Cedric have the most bearers?
We estimate about 30 thousand people bear Cedric in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled cedric.
How common is Cedric compared with other names?
In the United States, Cedric is the 861st most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Cedric a male or female name?
Cedric is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Cedric mean?
Recorded meaning: [Ignoto]
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cedric” — the 861st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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