Caesar is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning “*caser and *coser.” In 2024 it was given to 44 boys in the United States.
Caesar at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Italian · Scandinavian
Meaning
“*caser and *coser”
Pronunciation
/ˈsiːzə/
About the name Caesar
Caesar belongs to the Italian and Scandinavian tradition. Its meaning — “*caser and *coser” — is the sense carried by its Italian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Caesar first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #589 in 1904, and in 2024 44 babies received the name — 5,399 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.