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Cesar vs Cesaria

American parents have registered 79,139 Cesars since 1880, against 56 Cesarias. Cesar is still ahead, with 824 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cesar against Cesaria, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cesar Cesaria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 113 years in which either name was published, Cesar for 111 years and Cesaria for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cesar Cesaria
Total US births 79,13956
Most in one year 2,5388
Babies in 2025 824under 5
Estimated living today 76,0003
Median age today 2494
Peak year 20041909
Best rank 158th boys1,607th girls
Rank in 2025 385thunranked
First recorded 19151909
Girls / boys 315 / 78,82456 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cesarias alive today are over 94; half the Cesars are over 24. That is 70 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Cesar Cesaria
France 12,9805

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cesar and Cesaria.