Caesar

Where Caesar comes from

Caesar hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1180
    Caesar of Heisterbach born
    German Cistercian, author
  2. 1616
    Caesar van Everdingen born
    painter from the Northern Netherlands
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1904
    Peak, #587
    15 babies named Caesar — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Caesar of Heisterbach · German Cistercian, author, 1180–1240
  • Caesar van Everdingen · painter from the Northern Netherlands, 1616–1678
  • Caesar Rodney · American politician, 1728–1784
  • Caesar Augustus Rodney · American politician, 1772–1824
  • Caesar von Hofacker · German Luftwaffe lieutenant-colonel, member of the 20 July 1944 plot, 1896–1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.