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Cesaria vs Cesia

American parents have registered 1,443 Cesias since 1880, against 56 Cesarias. Cesia is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cesaria 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 52 years in which either name was published, Cesia for 42 years and Cesaria for 10 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cesaria Cesia
Total US births 561,443
Most in one year 865
Babies in 2025 under 523
Estimated living today 31,400
Median age today 9415
Peak year 19092009
Best rank 1,607th girls2,752nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,410th
First recorded 19091981
Girls / boys 56 / 01,443 / 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 Cesarias alive today are over 94; half the Cesias are over 15. That is 79 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: Cesaria and Cesia.