Cedric
A rare name in Poland: barely 65 men carry it, so most Poles have never met one. Its roots are Germanic, carrying the sense of "war leader" and also "loved".
Cedric Pronunciation
Cedric is pronounced TSED-reets (/ˈt͡sɛdrit͡s/).
What Cedric means
Where Cedric comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cedric comes into English from Germanic roots, and its meaning pulls in two directions: a war leader, and someone loved. Sir Walter Scott put the name into print in his 1819 novel Ivanhoe. Many scholars think he adapted Cerdic, the Anglo-Saxon name of the semi-legendary founder of the kingdom of Wessex. A slip of the pen may have turned Cerdic into Cedric.
The name found a second life in 1886. Frances Hodgson Burnett gave it to her hero in Little Lord Fauntleroy, and that book made Cedric a favourite for a generation of English-speaking boys.
The Polish gloss keeps the older sense: wojownik, wódz. A warrior, a chief. Cedric has no Polish diminutives of its own, so a boy in Poland carries the full form on the school register.
How many people are named Cedric
1 in 328403 men in Poland is named Cedric. 65 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4509 among male names.
Cedric as a middle name
Cedric is a first name for 65 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1848th, between Bharatkumar (22) and Chukwudi (22).
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#1846 Bennett22
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#1847 Bharatkumar22
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#1848 Cedric22
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#1849 Chukwudi22
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#1850 Derrick22