Cesar

What Cesar means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Cesar yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 824 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Cesar?

US: Falling: down from #281 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2004, when 2,538 boys got the name (#158 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 2,073 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.85 per 1,000 boys), TX (1.19 per 1,000 boys), AZ (1.16 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Cesar is #385 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Cesar were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Cezar5 US · 20 E&W
• Cesare5 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Cesar

Boys

• Jesus#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2004, with 6,472 babies; 2,078 in 2025
• Fernando#387Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 2,758 babies; 819 in 2025
• Alejandro#195“defender of man”^*
• Marcos#516Editor’s note Down from #408 in 2015 to #516 in 2025 in the US
• Luis#144Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Carlos#150Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*

For a sister

• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Alejandra#604Same root as Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Carmen#389Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 2,440 babies; 798 in 2025
• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*
• Ana#245Editor’s note Down from #211 in 2015 to #245 in 2025 in the US
• Angelica#707Italian, meaning “angelic”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Cesar’s. Rank is US 2025.