Cesare
Cesare was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,373 among boys’ names; 676 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cesare by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cesare?
#12,373 among boys’ names, 2025
Cesare fell from #7,147 in 2015 to #12,373 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 2.9 per million.
23 babies in 1970, the peak
Cesare peaked in 1970, when 23 boys were given it, #1,852 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,373 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,867 | 5.8 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,963 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,880 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,480 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,717 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,842 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,792 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,147 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,906 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #10,968 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,264 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,053 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,934 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,588 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,956 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,590 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,721 | 6.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,615 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,631 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,209 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,100 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,150 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,768 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,282 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,025 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,300 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,704 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,265 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,616 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,877 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,457 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,565 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,516 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,606 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,010 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,790 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,212 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,756 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,000 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,601 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,521 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,383 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,379 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 23 | #1,852 | 12.4 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,144 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,146 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,028 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,283 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,993 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,080 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,696 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,081 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,132 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,119 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,071 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,319 | 3.3 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,903 | 2.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,765 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,749 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,727 | 4.9 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,587 | 6.3 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,690 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,187 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,642 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,625 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,051 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,429 | 5.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,650 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,799 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,246 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,728 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,773 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,964 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,059 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,215 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,581 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,537 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,803 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,274 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,078 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,568 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,913 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cesare a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cesare has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cesare: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cesare, and how old are they?
An estimated 487 Americans named Cesare and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 22 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 812 people named Cesare (24 women and girls, 788 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 483 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,821 babies since 1880, Cesare is the second most given (37% of them).
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 Cesare
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 Cesare and names like it
- Compare Cesare and CesarioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCesare peaked in 1970.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cesare since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Cesare.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Cesare alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.