Cesca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Diminutive of Francesca, an Italian form of Françoise; from Latin meaning “of France”
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/seʃkɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cesca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 170K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 191K
- ITItaly≈1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
1,244 people
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminutive of Francesca, an Italian form of Françoise; from Latin meaning “of France”.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
How Cesca is read(measured from records)
Cesca is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cesca in Portuguese.
- Spanish23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cesca in Spanish.
- English20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cesca in English.
- French13%
Diminutive of Francesca, an Italian form of Françoise; from Latin meaning “of France”.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Diminutive of Francesca/Françoise, from Latin Franciscus 'Frank'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Italian7.3%
redução popular de Francesca.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cesca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,244 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giovanni Cescab. 1858ITItalian philosopher and writer (1858-1908)
- Giuliano Cescab. 1935Italian botanist
- Bob Cescab. 1971USAmerican journalist
- Alessandro Cescab. 1980ITItalian footballer
- Lucie Cescab. 1994FRwater polo player
- Eleonora CescaITItalian researcher (1977-)
- Simone Cescaresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0001-9419-3904
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,590 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 238 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 138 | #129,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 123 | #127,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 111 | #148,347 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 55 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 27 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cesca mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive of Francesca, an Italian form of Françoise; from Latin meaning “of France”. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Cesca?
- A machine transcription gives /seʃkɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Cesca have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Cesca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cesca.
- How common is the name Cesca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,244 people named Cesca, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cescaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cesca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.