Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Cesc is a diminutive of Francesc. Francesc comes from Latin, and ultimately from Italian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Catalan usage, Cesc is a diminutive of Francesc.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cesc through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2012.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cesc’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Cesc is a diminutive of Francesc. In Catalan usage, Cesc has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Franek. In Catalan usage, Cesc has a related form in Xesc.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cesc
- Cesc FàbregasSpanish professional footballer player and managerborn 1987
- Cesc GaySpanish film directorborn 1967
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.