Cesare vs Cesaria

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Cesare Cesaria

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 87 years in which either name was published, Cesare for 82 years and Cesaria for 5 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1909–1912 Cesaria ahead
• 1915–1925 Cesare ahead
• 1926 Cesaria ahead
• 1927–1930 Cesare ahead
• 1931 Cesaria ahead
• 1932–1933 Cesare ahead
• 1935 Cesaria ahead
• 1936–2025 Cesare ahead

Side by side

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 Cesarias alive today are over 94; half the Cesares are over 39. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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