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Sedona vs Sedrick

American parents have registered 3,511 Sedricks since 1880, against 2,381 Sedonas. But in 2025 it was Sedona that was commoner, 132 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sedona against Sedrick, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sedona Sedrick

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 80 years in which either name was published, Sedrick for 54 years and Sedona for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Sedona Sedrick
Total US births 2,3813,511
Most in one year 132129
Babies in 2025 132under 5
Estimated living today 2,4003,300
Median age today 1440
Peak year 20251976
Best rank 1,587th girls734th boys
Rank in 2025 1,587thunranked
First recorded 19871933
Girls / boys 2,381 / 00 / 3,511

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sedricks alive today are over 40; half the Sedonas are over 14. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sedona Sedrick
England and Wales 133

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sedona and Sedrick.