# Caspar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/caspar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “a given name” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkæspɚ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Jasper, Gaspar, Casper, Kaspar, Kasper, Kosper, Cosper, Gosper |
| US babies named this | 401 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 401 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,427, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

A name given to one of the Magi in Western church tradition, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more. Compare Hatran Aramaic 𐣢𐣦𐣡𐣣𐣩 (gzbry /⁠Gazzabray⁠/, “a given name”), also from Iranian.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 9,788 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,642 |
| 2013 | 15 | 5,706 |
| 2014 | 17 | 5,289 |
| 2015 | 7 | 9,736 |
| 2016 | 20 | 4,806 |
| 2017 | 20 | 4,770 |
| 2018 | 25 | 4,110 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,326 |
| 2020 | 17 | 5,283 |
| 2021 | 14 | 6,081 |
| 2022 | 19 | 5,053 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,605 |
| 2024 | 15 | 5,955 |
| 2025 | 20 | 4,889 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 63 | 557 |
| 2012 | 58 | 606 |
| 2013 | 55 | 621 |
| 2014 | 61 | 583 |
| 2015 | 47 | 702 |
| 2016 | 52 | 672 |
| 2017 | 56 | 635 |
| 2018 | 60 | 604 |
| 2019 | 76 | 512 |
| 2020 | 49 | 690 |
| 2021 | 77 | 509 |
| 2022 | 82 | 485 |
| 2023 | 66 | 567 |
| 2024 | 65 | 586 |
| 2025 | 48 | 728 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Գասպար
- Bulgarian: Каспар
- Czech: Kašpar
- Danish: Kasper, Jesper
- Estonian: Kaspar
- Finnish: Kasperi, Jasper
- French: Gaspard
- Georgian: კასპერი
- German: Caspar, Kaspar
- Hungarian: Gáspár
- Italian: Gaspare
- Latvian: Kaspars
- Norwegian: Kasper
- Polish: Kacper
- Portuguese: Gaspar
- Slovak: Gašpar
- Spanish: Gaspar
- Swedish: Kasper, Jesper

## People named Caspar

- Caspar Weinberger, American politician (1917-2006)
- Caspar Wessel, Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer (1745–1818)
- Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish anatomist
- Caspar Memering, German association football player
- Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch polymath (1584-1648)
- Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish polymath (1585-1629)
- Caspar Netscher, Dutch painter (1639-1684)
- Caspar Lee, British-South African YouTuber
- Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern, Dutch linguist and orientalist (1833-1917)
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, German Bohemian composer
- Caspar Corbeau, Dutch-American swimmer
- Caspar Commelijn, Dutch botanist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.