Cesaria is from the Cape Verdean Portuguese Cesária — feminine of Caesar — foundational Cape Verdean feminine name. A modern American baby name in the broader Cape Verdean-Lusophone heritage aesthetic. Cesaria is one of the foundational Cape Verdean feminine names — central to traditional Cape Verdean Crioulo + Lusophone African heritage. Notable bearer: Cesária Évora (1941-2011) — foundational Cape Verdean singer + foundational Queen of Morna + foundational Barefoot Diva (refused to wear shoes onstage in solidarity with poor) + foundational Cape Verdean morna (foundational Cape Verdean traditional music genre — UNESCO Intangible Heritage 2019) ambassador + Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album 2003 (Voz d'Amor) + foundational Cape Verdean cultural icon + foundational pan-African + Lusophone international representation. Foundational Cape Verdean feminine name.
Featured throughout Cape Verdean heritage.
Cesaria does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cesaria reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.