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Caesar

#2,842 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly hairy

Caesar has been given to 5,445 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,842 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Caesar, 2025

1 in 75,300

Caesar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caesar: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hairy

Latin

What Caesar means

Caesar may mean “hairy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Caesar is used in Swedish. Its origins include Latin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,445 boys were recorded with the name Caesar between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 2015; its best national rank was #589 in 1904.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,695 in 2020 to #2,842 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,693 in 2015 to #2,842 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Caesar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,842
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caesar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caesar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caesars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caesar was born before 1980 — so the typical Caesar is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
12.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,046
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 12.7% of all recorded uses (689).

Is Caesar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−5
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−147
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,149
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.8%
Peak was 2015 (92)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#589
1904

Spellings of Caesar

Caesar is not the most common spelling — Cesar is, with 83.6% against Caesar's 5.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Caesar is used

Across 1910–2025, Caesar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 44,391 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caesar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caesar around the world

Where Caesar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2023
    #3,736
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2010–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1959–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Caesar

People whose public names include Caesar, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Caesar in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Caesar. Linked forms have their own page here.

CesarCesareCèsarCésarCezaryQaisarTsezar

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Caesar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,842
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 147
Best rank ever
#589
1904
Peak year
2015
92 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,445
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Caesar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CaelanCaedenCaelumCaelCaelenCaedmonCaelinCeasarCaesonCaelebCaedonCaedynCaellumCaesynCaetanoCesarCaedanAusarCaelusAnsarMunasarCaedinSesarAsar

Names with a curve like Caesar

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Caesar, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MarshalDentonEugenioLinoReyesHamiltonFerminHilarioMarcelinoLeopoldoAbelardoLavon

Sibling names for Caesar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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