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If I like Cedric

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pambeeslyhalpert2 · 02/07/2023 13:05

I absolutely love the name Cedric and can't find anything I like more... my husband wants to have a couple to choose from it it's a boy.

We have a DD with an unusual welsh name so I don't want anything popular.

I know Cedric is very marmite and I'm expecting to get flamed... but I still love it

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ExhaustedPigeon3 · 02/07/2023 16:22

My cat is Cedric aka Ced, Ceddy and Cedrico. It’s a very cool name!

SirSidneyRuffDiamond · 02/07/2023 16:24

I love the name Cedric and I cannot see anything objectionable about it except that it fell out of favour 70/80 years ago. About time it was resurrected as it's actually a good strong Old English name.

IJustHadToLookHavingReadTheBook · 02/07/2023 16:48

Cedric is bad. Please don't lumber a real life kid with this. Give it to a dog.

RuthW · 02/07/2023 18:18

One of my favs. I also like

Eric
Edwin
Stanley
Frederick

MadameRanevskaya · 02/07/2023 18:26

Colin
Derek
Wilbur
Hubert
Brian
Cyril
Cecil
Alan

RubyMurry22 · 02/07/2023 18:29

Ha ha I must be getting old as it makes me think of Cedric the farting bulldog on All creatures great and small 😆

FawnDrench · 02/07/2023 18:31

Eustace
Percival
Clive
Sylvester
Dorian
Derek

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 02/07/2023 18:33

I love Cecil, as long as your DD’s Welsh name isn’t Ce- (eg Cerys, Celyn, Ceridwen).

Also Arthur (NB v popular), Stanley, Peter, Percival, Gethin.

Marsyas · 02/07/2023 18:33

Conrad

eatdrinkandbemerry · 02/07/2023 18:43

Ernest
Ralph
Django
Marlow
Derek
Alfred
Gregory
Cecil
Mervin
Neil
Carl
Todd

midsomermurderess · 02/07/2023 19:07

Ooh, Wolfric, now that’s a name. I also like Alaric, as suggested upthread. He was the first king of the Visigoths. I also like Clovis, but perhaps not outside France.

ItsYourColdDayInTheSun · 02/07/2023 19:09

I might be biased because my son is called Wulfric, but it's a great name. He gets Wulfie more often than not. If you spell in with a U instead of an O, it's Albus Dumbledore's middle name.

Cvn · 02/07/2023 19:13

I have no name suggestions to add, I'm just here to say OMG Cedric 🥰 Wish I'd thought of that 3 years ago when DS was bring born! Please use it!

CC4712 · 02/07/2023 19:23

I have no idea if any of these are Welsh, but these are the other 'old man' type names I think of when I hear Cedric

Cyril
Basil
Lester
Wilfred
Chester
Amos
Clifford
Nigel
Wilbur

ditalini · 02/07/2023 19:44

Here's a wee bit of Cedric trivia for you, Walter Scott made up the name Cedric for his novel Ivanhoe.

There was an Anglo Saxon king called Cerdic but Walt reckoned it sounded better the other way round.

midsomermurderess · 02/07/2023 19:52

I thought Cedric was made up too. Thanks for the reference @ditalini

oldnorsesaga · 02/07/2023 19:54

ditalini · 02/07/2023 19:44

Here's a wee bit of Cedric trivia for you, Walter Scott made up the name Cedric for his novel Ivanhoe.

There was an Anglo Saxon king called Cerdic but Walt reckoned it sounded better the other way round.

It's not clear where Scott got Cedric, but there are some theories that doesn't include made up origin

https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2014/01/cedric.html

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From Ivanhoe to Harry Potter, Cedric is a gallant literary choice with medieval flair. Origin: Cedric is a literary adaption, created by Sir Walter Scott for his novel Ivanhoe (1819). Most commonly, it is assumed that Scott based Cedric on (or misspell...

https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2014/01/cedric.html

Persiana · 02/07/2023 19:58

Tristan
Rafferty
Wilfred
Emmett
Barnaby
Rupert
Ambrose
Ezra
Caspar
Eli
Leander

meatbaseddessert · 02/07/2023 20:11

How are you pronouncing it?

I would have assumed Said Rick but I met someone once with the name who insisted on being called See Drick

ScribblingPixie · 02/07/2023 20:14

I have a French colleague called Cédric - I think it's a really cool name since I met him.

ScribblingPixie · 02/07/2023 20:15

I mean it's a name you can really own, if you know what I mean.

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pambeeslyhalpert2 · 02/07/2023 20:27

Wurlfic is amazing esp with the Albus connection.

Our cats called Basil otherwise that would deffo be on the list!

I'd pronounce it Said Rick as well!

You've all completely got my vibe, some really great names here!

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ColonelPine · 02/07/2023 20:53

Alaric is a very nice alternative to Cedric.

HuntingoftheSnark · 02/07/2023 20:53

Cedric is a great name. I think most similar is Tristan. Also Ernest, Wilfred, Hector, Montgomery.

Maddy70 · 02/07/2023 20:55

BCBird · 02/07/2023 13:09

I don't like it

That's not what the op asked and is actually quite rude