An illustration from Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. A character in the children’s novel helped popularize the name Cedric.
Gender
Unisex
Language(s)
English
Origin
Meaning
Literary, invented name
Cedric (/ˈsɛdrɪk/) is a given name invented by Walter Scott in the 1819 novel Ivanhoe.[1]
^Sir Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch (ed.), Ivanhoe, vol. 8 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, Edinburgh University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780748605736, "explanatory notes", p. 511.
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