Cesar
Cesar reached its high-water mark in 2004 at number 158, and has been recorded 79,139 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 385th. About 76,000 Cesars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cesar boys named Cesar
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 79,139
- Estimated living today
- 76,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 158th
- Rank in 2025
- 385th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 315 / 78,824
How old the living Cesars are
born that year still alive today
Of the 79,139 babies given the name since 1915, about 76,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 22,000 of them are children and 900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Anglicized spelling of Spanish César.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cesars
- César Azpilicueta (born 1989)Spanish association football player
- César Vallejo (1892–1938)Peruvian writer
- Cesar Romero (1907–1994)American actor
- César Franck (1822–1890)Belgian-French composer and organist
- César Milstein (1927–2002)Argentine biochemist
- César Cui (1835–1918)Russian composer and army officer
- César Sampaio (born 1968)Brazilian association football player
- César Luis Menotti (1938–2024)Argentine footballer and manager
People named Cesar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cesar is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cesar is most concentrated in California (3.8×), Nevada (3.6×), Arizona (3.5×), Texas (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Cesar peaked:
Cesar elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Cesar +1 spelling | 12,980 | 137th |
| Spain boys | Cesar | 4,486 | 95th |
| Belgium boys | César +1 spelling | 1,573 | 42nd |
| England and Wales boys | Cesar | 87 | 2,259th |
| Poland boys | Cesar | 2 birth registrations | 705th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Cesar: rank by region
In 2025, Cesar was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | César | 38 | 107 |
| Flanders | Cesar | 340 | 17 |
| Wallonia | César | 123 | 23 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Cesar appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (César, 18th), Province of East Flanders (César, 21st), Province of Walloon Brabant (César, 48th), Province of Antwerp (César, 61st), Province of Flemish Brabant (César, 86th), Province of Hainaut (César, 153rd), Province of Liège (César, 183rd) and Province of East Flanders (Cesar, 226th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Cesar among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Cesar +1 spelling | 28 | 66 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Cesar lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 42,697 men called Cesar were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palencia | Cesar | 426 | 5.406 | 47 |
| Segovia | Cesar | 422 | 5.314 | 47 |
| Valladolid | Cesar | 1,325 | 5.148 | 49 |
| Soria | Cesar | 220 | 4.800 | 46 |
| Ávila | Cesar | 364 | 4.507 | 53 |
| León | Cesar | 937 | 4.296 | 51 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Cesar against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.