Cezara
Fewer than 40 Polish women carry it, so most Poles have never met one. It pairs with Cezary and traces to a Latin word for a full head of hair.
Cezara Pronunciation
Cezara is pronounced tse-ZAH-rah (/t͡sɛˈzara/).
What Cezara means
Where Cezara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cezara comes from Latin, from the same root as the Roman cognomen Caesar. It is the feminine partner of Cezary, the cross-gender form Polish families still use. The Romans argued about where Caesar came from, and one explanation tied it to caesaries, the Latin word for a full head of hair. That is the sense behind the short meaning given here, head of hair, bujne włosy in Polish.
Call it a later reading rather than a proven origin. Roman writers such as the compiler of the Historia Augusta listed several guesses, and the hair story was only one of them. Still, it stuck.
Cezara stays rare in Poland. On a school register it sits apart from the Anias and Zuzannas, closer to its brother form Cezary. The short meaning keeps it plain: bujne włosy, a head of hair.
How many people are named Cezara
1 in 609293 women in Poland is named Cezara. 37 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6439 among female names.
Cezara as a middle name
Cezara is a first name for 37 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1602nd, between Benona (20) and Cezaryna (20).
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#1600 Balwina20
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#1601 Benona20
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#1602 Cezara20
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#1603 Cezaryna20
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#1604 Chantelle20