http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric tells us that "Cedric" is a male given name
invented by Walter Scott in the 1819 novel Ivanhoe, based on Cerdic, the
name of a 6th-century Saxon king. This chart seems to back that up.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Cedric&year_start=1750&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=
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