Caesar
Caesar was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,842 among boys’ names; 5,445 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Caesar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 17 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caesar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Caesar mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Caesar is “a male given name from Latin Caesar, of rare usage”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Caesar?
#2,842 among boys’ names, 2025
Caesar fell from #1,693 in 2015 to #2,842 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.0 to 25.8 per million.
92 babies in 2015, the peak
Caesar peaked in 2015, when 92 boys were given it, #1,693 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,842 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,837 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,902 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 46 | #2,796 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 55 | #2,441 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,695 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,465 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,066 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 76 | #1,898 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 82 | #1,829 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (130)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 92 | #1,693 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 83 | #1,797 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,165 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,072 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,205 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,588 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,625 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,349 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,143 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,408 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 69 | #1,851 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,284 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 59 | #1,961 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,971 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 64 | #1,762 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 58 | #1,829 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,799 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 56 | #1,791 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 67 | #1,534 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 67 | #1,497 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,412 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,750 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,318 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,323 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,331 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,491 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,175 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 42 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,126 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,492 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 38 | #1,599 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,459 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 47 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,574 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 44 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,152 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,086 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,167 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,126 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,288 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,151 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,303 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 33 | #1,335 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 35 | #1,329 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,281 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 31 | #1,402 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,156 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,117 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,200 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,279 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,215 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 49 | #1,082 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,113 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 42 | #1,153 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,000 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,213 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,170 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,143 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,227 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,522 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,236 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,096 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,299 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,582 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,346 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,274 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,256 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,635 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,276 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,064 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,449 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,469 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,612 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,365 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,150 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 42 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,095 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 53 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 40 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 43 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 53 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 51 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,036 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 54 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 41 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 41 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 33 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 32 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,052 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 10 | #959 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,129 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 15 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,061 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,071 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 6 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 6 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 6 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 8 | #708 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 5 | #884 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 6 | #828 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Caesar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caesar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 130 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caesar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caesar, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 5,445 Americans ever recorded as Caesar. The median Caesar alive today is 33 years old; half are between 17 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 4,488 people named Caesar (13 women and girls, 4,475 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,786 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 88 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 498 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 657 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 921 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 906 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 790 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Caesar born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,854 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 8 | #1,935 | 1.2× |
Where Caesar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caesar is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caesar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 84,584 babies since 1880, Caesar is the second most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 868 babies (5.1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caesar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caesar and names like it
- Compare Caesar and CesarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCaesar peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caesar since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Caesar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Caesar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Caesar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.