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Czar

zar /zɑr/

At a glance

U.S. rank 2025
#6,803 of boy names (outside the top 1,000)
Babies in 2025
12 (<0.01% of boys)
Trend
Slipping #5,235 in 2020 to #6,803 in 2025
Peak
#5,019 in 2022
First recorded
1975

Meaning of Czar

The name Czar unfolds like a midnight haiku penned on parchment of ancient marble, its syllable—“zar”—a single, resonant brushstroke echoing the Latin Caesar and the frost-kissed grandeur of Russian Tsars. Though scarcely borne by a handful of American newborns each year, it carries the hush of a snow-laden pine on a forgotten shrine path, evoking imperial authority tempered by the serene discipline of a samurai’s bowed head. In its cool embrace lies the paradox of gentle dominance: a quiet pulse beneath cherry-blossom drift, a sovereign whisper that requires no gilded throne. Parents who choose Czar weave into their child’s story the lingering scent of sandalwood incense and dry lacquer, marrying old-world gravitas with a modern streak of wry understatement—after all, few expect an emperor in miniature to slip silently into the crowd. Yet here, in this name’s expansive echo, resides the promise of hidden strength and poetic destiny.

How to pronounce Czar

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Popularity of Czar in the U.S.

Czar was the #6,803 boy name in the U.S. in 2025, with 12 babies. It peaked at #5,019 in 2022. It first appears in the records in 1975.

Bar and line chart: Czar in the U.S., 1975–2025. Bars: boys given the name each year, most 19 in 2022 and 12 in 2025. Line: rank among boy names, peak #5,019 in 2022, #6,803 in 2025.
  • Boys named Czar (left scale)
  • Rank among U.S. boy names (right scale, #1 at the top)
By year, 1975–2025. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Year-by-year table, 1975⁠–⁠2025 25 rows
Czar: babies and rank among boy names in the U.S. by year
YearBabiesRankvs previous year
2025126,803▲ 454
2024117,257▲ 2,506
202379,763▼ 4,744
2022195,019▲ 757
2021155,776▼ 541
2020175,235▲ 3,654
201988,889▲ 1,871
2018610,760▲ 15
2017610,775▼ 3,618
2016117,157▼ 481
2015126,676▼ 369
2014136,307▼ 903
2013165,404▲ 3,460
201288,864▲ 3,423
2011512,287▼ 4,148
201098,139▼ 447
2009107,692▲ 3,345
2008611,037▼ 116
2007610,921▼ 1,336
200679,585back (not recorded in 2003–2005)
2002510,667▼ 111
2001510,556▼ 207
2000510,349back (not recorded in 1997–1999)
199659,015back (not recorded in 1976–1995)
197555,464new

Notable people named Czar

  • Czar Amonsot is a Filipino professional boxer who challenged for the WBO interim world title in 2007.