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Cesaria vs Cesilia

American parents have registered 778 Cesilias since 1880, against 56 Cesarias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cesaria against Cesilia, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cesaria Cesilia

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 57 years in which either name was published, Cesilia for 47 years and Cesaria for 10 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cesaria Cesilia
Total US births 56778
Most in one year 844
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3760
Median age today 9428
Peak year 19091995
Best rank 1,607th girls2,735th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19091962
Girls / boys 56 / 0778 / 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 Cesilias are over 28. That is 66 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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