girls:
315 births since 1965
#5401 (5th percentile)
boys:
77.1k births since 1915
#373 (92nd percentile)
overall:
77.4k births since 1915
#817 (89th percentile)
The name Cesar is the #817 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 77,372 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 89.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #373 (91.9% percentile) for all time with 77,057 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,401 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 315 births since 1965.
Cesar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1965 for girls).
The name Cesar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cesar reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 81.8% percentile (ranked #166) with 1,085 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 1,200 births per million (ranked 81.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cesar ranks #346 for boys (62.1% percentile) with 480 births per million, which is 40.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cesar reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #837) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cesar".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Cesar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Cesar is pronounced as SEE-zer, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-zuhr, at 15.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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