Cesar surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Cesar surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,767 people carried this name — #10,627 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 97,100 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 845 people named Cesar.

71 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 69 départements, most often Meurthe-et-Moselle.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 71
Meurthe-et-Moselle 62
Paris 57
Moselle 53
Gard 47
Vosges 44
Aisne 39
Martinique 33
La Réunion 32

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 101 people named Cesar live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Liège 59
Limburg 15
Brussels-Capital 11
Hainaut 11
Luxembourg Province 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

97 people named Cesar live in Switzerland.

They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Vaud 33
Geneva 20
Bern 10
Zurich 9
Fribourg 6
Valais 6
Aargau 5
Schwyz 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

When the index is not enough

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