How common is the surname Ceasar?

2,694 people in the United States had the surname Ceasar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,605 Americans. It ranked 11,637th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Ceasar?

Ceasar is /siːzɚ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Ceasar getting more or less common?

More common. 2,377 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,694 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Ceasar

A surname, carried by 2,694 people in the United States.

Pronounced /siːzɚ/ 2 syllables Soundex C260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ceasar is more common than 92.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,694 people named Ceasar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,605 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,377.

#11,637

rank among US surnames

2,694

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+13.3%

change since 2000 (was #12,047)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,631	Witten	2,695	114,562
#11,637	Ceasar	2,694	114,605
#11,642	Rabideau	2,693	114,647
#11,644	Danford	2,692	114,690

Who is named Ceasar

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

81% of people named Ceasar identified as Black (not Hispanic), 8.7% as white (not Hispanic) and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Black (not Hispanic) 81%
White (not Hispanic) 8.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.6%
Two or more races 2.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ceasar

Ceasar has the Soundex code C260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C260.

Questions

How common is the surname Ceasar?: 2,694 people in the United States had the surname Ceasar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,605 Americans. It ranked 11,637th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ceasar?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Ceasar identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 8.7% as white (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Ceasar?: Ceasar is /siːzɚ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Ceasar getting more or less common?: More common. 2,377 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,694 in 2010, up 13%.