Cezar
Masculine
Rome did not know what Caesar meant either. Suetonius lists four explanations and endorses none: a thick head of hair, grey eyes, an ancestor who killed an elephant, and a child cut from the womb. The most famous name in Roman history had four competing etymologies in Rome itself.
How old is the name Cezar?
Cezar first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Cezar alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 700 people named Cezar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cezar most popular?
Cezar peaked in 2001, reaching #2931 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 9,077 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Caesar to Cezar
The story of Cezar
Roman men had three names and they worked differently from ours. The first was personal and there were only about eighteen in use, so it carried almost no information. The second was the clan name, inherited and important. The third, the cognomen, started as a nickname for an individual and became hereditary within a branch of the clan — which is why so many Roman cognomina are unflattering descriptions that stuck to a whole family. Caesar was the cognomen of one branch of the Julii, and the man everyone knows was Gaius Julius Caesar: Gaius the person, Julius the clan, Caesar the branch. The z spelling records the sound in languages that voice an s between vowels.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No explanation of the cognomen Caesar has been established. The four ancient proposals — caesaries, a head of hair; caesius, grey-eyed; a Punic word for elephant; and caedere, to cut — are all recorded by Roman writers who could not decide. Cezar is the Romanian, Polish and Portuguese spelling.
How the name formed
- Caesar
- Cezar
Related forms: Cezar · Cezar · Cesar
Pronouncing Cezar
CHEH-zar
Two syllables, stress on the first, in Romanian. Polish says TSEH-zar, with the c as ts. English readers say SEE-zar or SEZ-ar. Three languages, three first consonants, one name.
Nicknames for Cezar
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 200432 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2931reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- −50.0%5 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cezar in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cezar in Romanian — same name
- Cezar in Polish — same name
- Cesar in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Cezars among us
people named Cezar are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Cezar
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cezar
- #12008
- Cezar on the 2025 chart
- #366
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cezar went to 5 boys in 2025, but Cesar is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 829, which makes it the 366th most-given boys’ name of the year — 11,642 places above the chart.
- Cesar824
- Cezar5
About 1 boy in 2,060 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 341,615 for Cezar itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Babatunde test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cezar's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Babatunde climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Babatunde's path sketches the road Cezar is walking now.
Cezar sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Cezar beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cezar in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two syllables and five letters, with nothing hard for an English speaker.
- The same spelling in Romanian and Polish.
- It carries one of the best-known names in history without the English spelling.
- The first consonant is said three different ways depending on the reader's language.
- Cesar and Caesar are both commoner in America and will be substituted.
- The name has no established meaning, which the Romans already knew.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cezars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Cezar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cezar?
- Cezar is one of 2 recorded spellings. Cesar is the more common one — 824 births in 2025 against 5 for Cezar.
- How popular is the name Cezar in 2025?
- Cezar ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cezar?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Cezar — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cezar with classmates?
- Cezar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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