Name profile

Caesar

A name meaning "hairy".

PronunciationLatin /ˈkae̯.sar/; American English /ˈsi.zəɹ/; British English /ˈsiː.zə/
Usage languagesAncient Roman
US rank (2025)#2,833

Meaning and history

From a Roman cognomen that possibly meant “hairy,” from Latin caesaries “hair,” Caesar was borne by Julius Caesar and his adopted son Julius Caesar Octavianus, commonly known as Augustus, both rulers of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, and later became a title used by subsequent emperors.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 51 births, rank #2,398
2007: 63 births, rank #2,139
2008: 55 births, rank #2,345
2009: 47 births, rank #2,623
2010: 47 births, rank #2,579
20112011: 59 births, rank #2,203
2012: 66 births, rank #2,066
2013: 61 births, rank #2,165
2014: 83 births, rank #1,794
2015: 92 births, rank #1,691
20162016: 82 births, rank #1,828
2017: 76 births, rank #1,897
2018: 69 births, rank #2,065
2019: 54 births, rank #2,464
2020: 46 births, rank #2,689
20212021: 55 births, rank #2,439
2022: 46 births, rank #2,793
2023: 43 births, rank #2,895
2024: 45 births, rank #2,835
20252025: 44 births, rank #2,833

Caesar moved from #920 to #961 for boys between 1919 and 1922. Its highest annual birth count came in 1916, with 54 births.