Kedar is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Kedar has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Kedar. That means that a boy named Kedar is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kedar.
In fact, the name Kedar hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Kedar wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1998, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,330, 33 parents chose it in 1998 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kedar, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kedar was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Kedar a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 6,204, for a total of 11 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Kedar seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Meeting a man or boy named Kedar is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Kedar can be found in only two: California and New York. No other state currently has residents named Kedar. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Kedar living in one state or another. (If your name is Kedar and you live outside of California or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Kedar is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00021% of all male residents are called Kedar – that’s just one in 472,819! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 34 men going by that name. So, if your name is Kedar, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Kedar is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kedar 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 Kedar, you can simply say:
Koala
Elephant
Dinosaur
Apple
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kedar
Kedar
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
E
D
A
R
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.
K
E
D
A
R
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. Kedar sounds like this:
