Cedar

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cedar: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cedar: Recorded since 2008, it reached #2,259 in 2018, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#2259highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#5545
2012	#4838
2014	#4684
2017	#4063
2018	#5666
2020	#5493
2023	#4709
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 8 of the 17 years from 2008 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2008–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #5545 among girls in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2015–2024
Highest recorded position: #2259 among boys in England and Wales, in 2018 (recorded 2015–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Cedar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 29 births with the name.

Cedar across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cedar's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#5545 (2008)	#4063 (2017)	#5891 (2024)	8 of 17	29 (2008–2024)	5 (2017)
England and Wales · Boys	#4747 (2015)	#2259 (2018)	#5119 (2024)	6 of 10	34 (2015–2024)	9 (2018)

Cedar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cedar in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	16	4 of 10	4
2020s	10	3 of 10	3

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cedar appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2259 in England and Wales in 2018.

Cedar's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2259	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2008 and 2024, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,259, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
2 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#5,119position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
9births registered in its largest year, 2018Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alperen · #2259, 13y
Elyan · #2259, 12y
Great · #2263, 11y
Haniel · #2263, 10y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Alperen · #2259, 13y
Rheo · #2259, 16y
Great · #2263, 11y
Hriday · #2263, 14y

Cedar and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cedar without appearing here.

Cedar moved ahead of

Kristin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Cedar

Meabh Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #2314.
Fiadh Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4684 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #2502.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2259 in England and Wales in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cedar

Cedar at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cedar across 2 official records

Cedar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cedar appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Cedar and the names beside it

Cedar moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cedar

Cedar at a glance

Cedar across 2 official records

Cedar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cedar appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Cedar and the names beside it

Cedar moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cedar