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Cesare vs Cesia

American parents have registered 1,443 Cesias since 1880, against 676 Cesares. Cesia is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cesare against Cesia, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cesare Cesia

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 92 years in which either name was published, Cesare for 53 years and Cesia for 39 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Cesare Cesia
Total US births 6761,443
Most in one year 2365
Babies in 2025 523
Estimated living today 4901,400
Median age today 3915
Peak year 19702009
Best rank 1,847th boys2,752nd girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th5,410th
First recorded 19151981
Girls / boys 0 / 6761,443 / 0

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 Cesares alive today are over 39; half the Cesias are over 15. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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