Cesar

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled César in SV El Salvador, GT Guatemala, PA Panama.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cesar is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name113K records spelled Cesar7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Peru, Spain

  Also written César, Cèsar, Cesár, Ćesar, Cėsar

• French given name86K records spelled Cesar22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

  Also written César, Caesar, Cèsar, Cêsar, Caësar

• French given name45K records spelled Cesar66 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan, Thai

  Also written Romain, Romanus, รอแมง, Rom'Ain, Romaïn

• English given name14K records spelled Cesar73 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Laos, Philippines, Netherlands

  Languages: English, Lao, Thai

  Also written Caesar, Casar, César, Cäsar, Sesa

• Polish given name13K records spelled Cesar7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Spain, Peru

  Languages: Polish, Croatian, Bulgarian

  Also written Цесар, César

• Ukrainian given name7.1K records spelled Cesar50 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Russia, Peru

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

  Also written Цезарь, Цезар, Tsezar, Tsesar, César

80 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Cesar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• From the Latin family name Caesar. See {Caesar in main dictionary.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Spanish, to cease (to stop)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, var. regional de Cesare.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In French, Du latin Caesar; nom impérial romain.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In English, Latin Caesar; imperial title

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Cesare Borgiab. 1475ITnot in their usual nameDuke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal
• Jules Janssenb. 1824FRnot in their usual nameFrench astronomer (1824-1907)
• César Cuib. 1835LTRussian composer and army officer
• César Vallejob. 1892PEPeruvian writer
• César Pellib. 1926ARArgentine-American architect (1926–2019)
• César Gaviriab. 1947COPresident of Colombia
• Osvaldo Ardilesb. 1952ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player and manager
• Bernardo Arévalo de Leónb. 1958GTnot in their usual namePresident of Guatemala since 2024
• César Sánchezb. 1971ESSpanish footballer
• Daniel Brühlb. 1978ESnot in their usual nameGerman actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 942 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cesar?

We estimate roughly 468 thousand people bear Cesar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Cesar have the most bearers?

Cesar is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled cesar.

Where is Cesar most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cesar is densest in Paraguay — about 1 in 83 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Cesar compared with other names?

In Argentina, Cesar is the 60th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Cesar a male or female name?

Cesar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Cesar mean?

Recorded meaning: From Latin Caesar; etymology traditionally connected to caedere, 'to cut'.