Cedrick

Where Cedrick comes from

Cedrick hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1951
    First appearance
    #2,662 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Cedrick Hordges born
    American basketball player
  3. 1978
    Peak, #594
    200 babies named Cedrick — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1981
    Cedrick Banks born
    American basketball player
  5. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,400.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cedrick Banks · American basketball player, born 1981
  • Cedrick Hordges · American basketball player, 1957–2024
  • Cedrick Mugisha · rwandese actor and football player, born 1997
  • Cedrick Bowers · American baseball player, born 1978
  • Cedrick Wilson Jr. · American football player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.