Updated March 26, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Long-haired; hairy
  • Latin : A fine head of hair; Famous emperor
  • Shakespearean : From Julius Caesar

Boy name variations

Cesar

Cesar

+ 13% this year
Masculine
Uncommon
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Czar

Czar

+ 20% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Kaiser

Kaiser

+ 9% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Caesarae

Caesarae

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Caesare

Caesare

- 67% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Caesario

Caesario

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Casarius

Casarius

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Caeser

Caeser

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Casa

Casa

0 % this year
Masculine
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Caseare

Caseare

0 % this year
Masculine
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How Popular Is The Name Caesar

Family name origins & meanings

  • From the Latin family name of the first Roman emperor, Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 bc), which gave rise to vocabulary words meaning ‘emperor’ or ‘ruler’ in German (Kaiser), Russian (tsar), Arabic (qaỵsar), and other languages. As a modern family name it is probably most often a humanistic re-translation into Latin of German Kaiser, but it is also found as an Americanized form of Italian Cesare and French César and Césaire. It is also found as an English surname, derived either from a medieval personal name taken from the Latin or a nickname for someone who had played the part of the emperor Julius Caesar in a pageant.