Tedrick
Masculine
Tedrick joins a familiar front syllable to an old Germanic ending. The front is also an English verb about farming that almost nobody outside farming has met.
How old is the name Tedrick?
Tedrick first appears in US birth records in 1952 — 73 years ago. The typical Tedrick alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 700 people named Tedrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tedrick most popular?
Tedrick peaked in 1976, reaching #2177 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tedrick
To ted hay is to spread it out and turn it so that it dries evenly, and the machine that does it is a tedder. The word came into English from Old Norse and has been in continuous agricultural use for eight hundred years, which is longer than most words manage, and it is completely unknown to anybody who has not made hay. English is full of these: words that are alive and precise inside one trade and invisible outside it. Farming keeps a great many of them, because the jobs have been the same for a very long time even when the machinery has not.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The ending is the Germanic ric, meaning rule, which closes Frederick and Roderick and is documented. The front is a free syllable and this pairing is not recorded.
Pronouncing Tedrick
TED-rik
Two syllables with the stress in front. Nothing in it invites hesitation.
Nicknames for Tedrick
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
- 1952
- Most boys named
- 198223 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2177reached in 1976
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%8 in 2024, from 8
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.
Tedricks among us
people named Tedrick 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
Tedrick 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
- Ted and Rick are both available as short forms and both stand alone.
- It is read correctly at first sight and never needs spelling twice.
- It is distinctive on a page while being built from entirely familiar pieces.
- Kedrick and Cedric are close enough to be confused with it.
- No origin is documented for the pairing, so the meaning question belongs to the ending only.
- It belongs audibly to one stretch of American naming, which places it in time for some listeners.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tedricks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Tedrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tedrick in 2025?
- Tedrick is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Tedrick with classmates?
- Tedrick will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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