Cedar

loc · Latin script

Meaning: A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cedar is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia
  • AIAnguilla
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
224 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Cedar, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cedar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Cedar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1.6KCedar224
GB United Kingdom——Cedar37
AU Australia—3Cedar33
AI Anguilla——Cedar1
CA Canada—4Cedar45

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cedar is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Portugal, United States, Costa Rica

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cédar, Cèdar

  • Swahili name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, Lesotho

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Cèdar

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cedar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, inflection of cēdō:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, cedar (tree)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In io, to cede

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Jon Cedar, b. 1931Cedar Walton, b. 1934Howard Cedar, b. 1943Joseph Cedar, b. 1968Chris Cedar, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Cedar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020673#35,883
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000608#35,106
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010561#39,212
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cedar mean, and where does it come from?
A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Cedar have the most bearers?
Cedar is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled cedar.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cedar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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