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Cedric

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

English name invented by Sir Walter Scott for the character Cedric of Rotherwood in Ivanhoe (1819). It is probably a metathesized form of Cerdic [1]

Related Names

Cedric ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Cedrick ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Cedrik ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Sedric ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Sedrick ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Sedrik ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Cedric
Genitive: Cedrics
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Cedric
Genitive: Cedricin
Partitive: Cedriciä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Cedric
Genitive: Cedrics
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Cedric
Genitive: Cedrics

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Cedric (percentage of first or only given name: 0 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
156 226 0 2 156 224
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 155 0 0
n.a.
 155
Denmark Denmark[6]
49
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 49
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[7]
1 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
138
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 138
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Cedric.


References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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