Shedrick
Masculine
Shadrach was a Babylonian name imposed on a Hebrew captive, and the text says so. Four young men are taken to the palace, trained for royal service and given new names on arrival — which is what an empire does, and which the book records without comment before going on to the furnace.
How old is the name Shedrick?
Shedrick first appears in US birth records in 1886 — 139 years ago. The typical Shedrick alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 2,000 people named Shedrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shedrick most popular?
Shedrick peaked in 1886, reaching #647 nationally. See the whole 1886 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Shadrach to Shedrick
The story of Shedrick
The renaming in the first chapter of Daniel is deliberate and the book expects the reader to notice: Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, all of whom have God inside their names, are given names built on Babylonian gods instead. Then they refuse to bow to a statue and survive the furnace, and it is their Babylonian names that go into every subsequent retelling and every spiritual. Shedrick is the American spelling, and it does to a Babylonian name what American spelling does to everything: writes it with a k on the end so that it looks like a surname.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Babylonian name has no agreed meaning; proposals connect it to the moon god Aku, and none is secure. The Hebrew name it replaced was Hananiah, which means God has been gracious.
How the name formed
- Shadrach
- Shedrick
Pronouncing Shedrick
SHED-rik
Two syllables with the weight at the front. Shadrach has a fuller first vowel and a ch at the end, which this spelling replaces entirely.
Nicknames for Shedrick
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1886
- Most boys named
- 197679 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #647reached in 1886
- Change vs 2020
- −44.4%5 in 2023, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shedricks among us
people named Shedrick are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shedrick sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both syllables are readable, so the name is said correctly at sight.
- Rick is a ready short form and a standing name of its own.
- The story behind it is among the best known in the Hebrew Bible.
- Shadrach is the biblical spelling and will be offered instead.
- The name is not the man's own; it was given to him by the people who deported him.
- It reads clearly as a name of the nineteenth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shedricks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Shedrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shedrick in 2025?
- Shedrick is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Shedrick with classmates?
- Shedrick will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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