Cédric
Just 57 men in Poland carry this French name, and none have been born in years: most Poles will never meet a Cédric. It comes from a Germanic root meaning "war chief" or "loved".
Cédric Pronunciation
Cédric is pronounced TSÉDREETS (/t͡sédrit͡s/).
What Cédric means
Where Cédric comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cédric traces back to Walter Scott, who put the name Cerdic into his 1819 novel Ivanhoe and reshaped it into Cedric. Scott borrowed from Cerdic, the semi-legendary founder of the kingdom of Wessex, a name of Germanic and Old Saxon stock. French readers took the spelling with the accent, Cédric, and the name settled into France as its own.
The old roots point toward a leader in war. That is the sense behind the Polish gloss, wojownik, wódz: a war chief, someone who commands.
A second meaning rides alongside, the sense of "loved". This reading came later, tied more to the tender boy of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy, whose hero is Cedric Errol. The warrior and the beloved child share one name without contradiction.
In France the name peaked in the 1970s and 1980s, so a Cédric there is often middle-aged now. In Poland it stays rare, an import you might meet once on a class register. No Polish diminutive has grown onto it. It keeps its French shape, accent and all, and its first meaning: war chief.
How many people are named Cédric
1 in 374495 men in Poland is named Cédric. 57 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4911 among male names.
Cédric as a middle name
Cédric is a first name for 57 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2206th, between Csaba (17) and Damilola (17).
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#2204 Clemens17
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#2205 Csaba17
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#2206 Cédric17
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#2207 Damilola17
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#2208 Delfin17