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Ceanna vs Ceaser

American parents have registered 859 Ceasers since 1880, against 750 Ceannas. But in 2025 it was Ceanna that was commoner, 8 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ceanna against Ceaser, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ceanna Ceaser

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Ceaser for 75 years and Ceanna for 32 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Ceanna Ceaser
Total US births 750859
Most in one year 4417
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 740550
Median age today 1835
Peak year 20071995
Best rank 3,653rd girls3,693rd boys
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 19781890
Girls / boys 750 / 00 / 859

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ceasers alive today are over 35; half the Ceannas are over 18. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ceanna and Ceaser.