# Caesar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/caesar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,445 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,445 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 131, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 59 | 2,206 |
| 2012 | 66 | 2,073 |
| 2013 | 61 | 2,166 |
| 2014 | 83 | 1,797 |
| 2015 | 92 | 1,693 |
| 2016 | 82 | 1,829 |
| 2017 | 76 | 1,898 |
| 2018 | 69 | 2,067 |
| 2019 | 54 | 2,466 |
| 2020 | 46 | 2,696 |
| 2021 | 55 | 2,442 |
| 2022 | 46 | 2,798 |
| 2023 | 43 | 2,903 |
| 2024 | 45 | 2,837 |
| 2025 | 44 | 2,843 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## People named Caesar

- Caesar of Heisterbach, German Cistercian, author
- Caesar Rodney, American politician (1728-1784)
- Caesar Augustus Rodney, American politician (1772-1824)
- Caesar von Hofacker, German Luftwaffe lieutenant-colonel, member of the 20 July 1944 plot
- Caesar Mannelli, American rugby union player (1897–1936)
- Caesar Antoine, American businessman, farmer, newspaper editor and politician
- Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (1812-1894)
- César Baldaccini, French sculptor (1921-1998)
- J. C. Watts, American politician (born 1957)
- Louis Constantin of Rohan, Catholic cardinal

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.