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Meaning of the nameCesário

Cesário is a masculine name of Latin origin, from the Late Latin Caesarius, the name of several saints, which Behind the Name gives as a variant of Caesar.

Meaning

The meaning of Cesário is not known for certain. The sources consulted give no settled meaning for it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
3,377
Rank in Brazil
#3,580
Median age
61 years
2010 Census
4,551
people

Cesário in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Cesário, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (763 people).

0 women 3,359 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Cesário is most common

States with the highest share of people named Cesário in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Piauí 0.010%
  2. Ceará 0.004%
  3. Maranhão 0.003%
  4. Pará 0.002%
  5. Bahia 0.002%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo4850.001%
Ceará3560.004%
Minas Gerais3200.002%
Piauí3160.010%
Bahia2340.002%
Maranhão2150.003%
Rio de Janeiro2070.001%
Pará1520.002%
Santa Catarina1330.002%
Paraná1270.001%
Goiás1220.002%
Rio Grande do Sul1070.001%
Paraíba950.002%
Pernambuco920.001%
Mato Grosso670.002%
Amazonas640.002%
Distrito Federal610.002%
Rio Grande do Norte550.002%
Tocantins410.003%
Mato Grosso do Sul330.001%
Rondônia210.001%
Espírito Santo200.001%
Alagoas170.001%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Cesário

Wiktionary records Cesário as a masculine name of Latin origin, with Cesária as the feminine. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado (1981), derives it from the Late Latin Caesarius, the name of several saints celebrated by the Church. Behind the Name describes Caesarius as a Roman variant of Caesar, whose possible meaning, 'hairy', is uncertain. For this reason the sense of Cesário is not given as certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 3,377 people named Cesário, almost always men, and most were born in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Proportionally, it is most common in Piauí.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Cesário · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Cesário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  3. Behind the Name: Caesarius · behindthename.com · origin
  4. Behind the Name: Caesar · behindthename.com · origin

Questions about the name Cesário

What does the name Cesário mean?

The meaning of Cesário is not known for certain: the sources consulted give no settled meaning for it. So we give none; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Cesário in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,377 people with the first name Cesário, which ranks it number 3,580 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Cesário a boy's or a girl's name?

Cesário is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 3,359 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Cesário?

Cesário is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Cesário most common?

Proportionally, in Piauí: 0.010% of the state's population is named Cesário (316 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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