Given name & surname · also French
César
“an emperor; having a full head of hair”
César is a variant of Caesar. One Latin interpretation is “an emperor; having a full head of hair.”
Original LatinCaesar
Meaning & origin
What it means
César is a variant of Caesar. One Latin interpretation is “an emperor; having a full head of hair.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
César comes from Middle French, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
César’s family of names
César shares a linguistic root with Caesar. In Portuguese usage, César has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cesar. César has a related form in Caesar.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
César has relatives in 31 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere César comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 34
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Cesarborrowing · English
- Kaiserdoublet · German, Portuguese
- Czardoublet · Portuguese
- CezarSerbo-Croatian, Romanian
- Cesarecognate · Italian
- Zardoublet
- Qaisarequivalent
- 凱撒Chinese
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- Césaireequivalent
- Tsezarequivalent
- Cezaryequivalent
- Tsardoublet
- سیزرUrdu
- ЦезарUkrainian, Serbo-Croatian
- SezarTurkish
- ซีซาร์Thai
- ЦезарьRussian
- قیصرPersian
- シーザーJapanese
- カエサルJapanese
- Cezaroio, Esperanto
- सीज़रHindi
- קיסרHebrew
- ΚαίσαρAncient Greek
- ΚαίσαραςGreek
- 시저Korean
- 凯撒Chinese
- 恺撒Chinese
- 愷撒Chinese
- ЦэзарBelarusian
- ԿեսարArmenian
- قيصرArabic
- ZäsarGerman
- CäsarGerman
People named César
- César AzpilicuetaSpanish association football playerborn 1989
- César VallejoPeruvian writer1892–1938
- Cesar RomeroAmerican actor (1907–1994)
- César MilsteinArgentine biochemist (1927–2002)
- César FranckBelgian-French composer and organist (1822–1890)
- César CuiRussian composer and army officer1835–1918
- César SampaioBrazilian association football playerborn 1968
- César Luis MenottiArgentine footballer and manager (1938–2024)
- Bernardo ArévaloPresident of Guatemala since 2024born 1958
Characters named César: El Coyote (fictional character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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