Cedar
#2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births · #1,244 for boys in 2025, 160 births
Given to boys 64.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 188 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,629since 1972
Cedar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,822 | 60 | #1,244 | 160 |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 | #1,189 | 173 |
| 2023 | #2,269 | 81 | #1,248 | 155 |
| 2022 | #2,253 | 83 | #1,125 | 188 |
| 2021 | #2,510 | 70 | #1,245 | 153 |
| 2020 | #2,341 | 75 | #1,201 | 158 |
| 2019 | #2,856 | 58 | #1,188 | 161 |
| 2018 | #3,245 | 49 | #1,261 | 145 |
| 2017 | #2,964 | 55 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | #1,329 | 134 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | #1,502 | 110 |
| 2014 | #3,184 | 51 | #1,920 | 75 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | #1,989 | 69 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #2,155 | 62 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | #2,232 | 58 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 | #2,467 | 50 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #2,894 | 41 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 | #2,879 | 41 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 | #2,602 | 47 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | #2,513 | 48 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 | #3,456 | 27 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #2,489 | 39 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #3,376 | 23 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | #2,361 | 19 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cedar! It came in at #4,441, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cedar
- 55 spots since 2024 (#1,189 → #1,244)
- 43 spots since 2020 (#1,201 → #1,244)
- 258 spots since 2015 (#1,502 → #1,244)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2022 at #1,125 (188 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,287 boys born in 2022 were named Cedar (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,675 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.0% of all boys named Cedar (1,000) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2004, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 75 | #2,361 (1977) | #3,901 |
| 1980s | 85 | #3,615 (1980) | #4,927 |
| 1990s | 143 | #3,017 (1998) | #4,755 |
| 2000s | 339 | #2,489 (2001) | #3,143 |
| 2010s | 1,000 | #1,188 (2019) | #1,736 |
| 2020s | 987 | #1,125 (2022) | #1,209 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cedar in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 21,554 of them was named Cedar, which outranked 86.6% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,317Tayla76
- #2,317Vanellope76
- #2,317Wednesday76
- #2,341Cedar75
- #2,341Abbey75
- #2,341Aella75
- #2,341Ahana75
- #2,376Andromeda74
- #2,376Aniah74
- #2,376Cayleigh74
Tied with 34 names at #2,341; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 10,925 of them was named Cedar, which outranked 91.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,196Reagan160
- #1,196Zen160
- #1,200Zeus159
- #1,201Cedar158
- #1,201Gian158
- #1,203Aarush157
- #1,203Aurelio157
- #1,203Jasiel157
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.