Given name & surname
Cezar
“an emperor; having a full head of hair”
Cezar is a variant of Caesar. One Latin interpretation is “an emperor; having a full head of hair.”
Original LatinCaesar
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cezar is a variant of Caesar. One Latin interpretation is “an emperor; having a full head of hair.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cezar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 737
- 737 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,379 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,379 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 32 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,287 as a first name in 2020; 474 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cezar’s family of names
In Polish usage, Cezar shares an earlier linguistic root with CEZARY. Cezar has a related form in Caesar. In Romanian usage, Cezar was borrowed from the Latin form Caesar.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Cezar has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Cezar comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cezar
- WashingtonBrazilian association football playerborn 1986
- Cezar BolliacRomanian writer and scholar1813–1881
- Cezar PetrescuRomanian writer (1892–1961)
- Cezar DrăgănițăRomanian handball playerborn 1954
- Cezar BononiBrazilian professional wrestlerborn 1986
- Cezar FerreiraBrazilian mixed martial artistborn 1985
- Cezar PapacosteaRomanian writer and translator (1886-1936)
- Cezar LăzărescuRomanian architect1923–1986
- Cezar BădițăRomanian swimmerborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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