In 1819, Scottish author Walter Scott invented the name Cedric for one of his characters in his historic novel ‘Ivanhoe’. He probably based it on the Old English name Cerdic, that may have Germanic origins. Its meaning is not known.
Cedric is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Cedric isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Cedric ranks 831. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Cedric. In the entire USA, approximately 36,613 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cedric. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
In 1819, Scottish author Walter Scott invented the name Cedric for one of his characters in his historic novel ‘Ivanhoe’. He probably based it on the Old English name Cerdic, that may have Germanic origins. Its meaning is not known.
Cedric remained a rarely... name until another book, the children's book 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', made it more popular in 1885.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Cedric is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Cedric and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cedric, you can simply say:
Cat
Elephant
Dinosaur
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cedric
Cedric
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
E
D
R
I
C
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
E
D
R
I
C
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cedric sounds like this:
