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Cesare

#12,373 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Caesar

Cesare has been given to 676 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #12,373 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Cesare, 2025

1 in 663,000

Cesare 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cesare: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Caesar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cesare means

Cesare is a form of Caesar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cesare is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃeː.za.re/ for Cesare.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Cesare → Caesar. The family’s proposed meaning is “hairy”, recorded in the naming reference for Caesar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caesar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 676 boys were recorded with the name Cesare between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,852 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,880 in 2020 to #12,373 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,147 in 2015 to #12,373 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.

How common is Cesare?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,373
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cesare 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cesare. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cesares were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cesare was born before 1974 — so the typical Cesare is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
506
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (113).

Is Cesare 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
−4,506
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,493
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,226
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.7%
Peak was 1970 (23)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,852
1970

Spellings of Cesare

Cesare is not the most common spelling — Cesar is, with 82.2% against Cesare's 0.70%.

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 Cesare is used

Across 1910–2025, Cesare was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 523,163 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Cesare has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cesare around the world

Where Cesare 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
    2004–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1925–2025
    #5,058
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2016
    #2,748
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1950–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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.

Cesare by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,373
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,493
Best rank ever
#1,852
1970
Peak year
1970
23 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
676
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Cesare

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

JamareZiareKamareCesarioGaspareCesareoRomareAmareDamareLazareSquareMareClareCesearOmareTavareLamareCesarAhmareJabareCaesareCamareDemareZamare

Sibling names for Cesare

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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