Kasper
Masculine · “treasurer”
Kasper is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,389 boys against 20 girls since 1880.
Kasper is one of the three magi, and the name may be Persian — a treasurer, from a word about keeping wealth, which fits a man who brought gifts.
How old is the name Kasper?
Kasper first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Kasper is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Kasper are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kasper most popular?
Kasper peaked in 2024, reaching #1735 nationally. Today it ranks #1867, 132 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Where it comes from
From ganzabara to Kasper
The story of Kasper
Matthew says magi came from the east but does not number or name them; three gifts became three men, and by the sixth century they had names. Caspar became a standard name across Catholic Europe, and Kasper is the Danish, Polish and Czech spelling. Emigration brought it to America, where it is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
treasurer
Usually read from an Old Persian word behind ganzabara, 'treasurer'. The three magi are not named in the Gospels; Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar appear first in a sixth-century text. The Persian derivation is plausible and widely given but not established.
How the name formed
- ganzabara
- Caspar
- Kasper
Related forms: Kasper · Kacper · Kaspar · Casper
Pronouncing Kasper
KAS-pur
Two syllables, stress on the first. Danish and Polish say it the same way.
Nicknames for Kasper
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 202495 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1735reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −11.6%84 in 2025, from 95
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kasper in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kasper in Danish — same name
- Kacper in Polish — related form
- Kaspar in German — spelling variant
- Casper in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Texas.
Kaspers among us
people named Kasper are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 20,334 born in 2025 was named Kasper
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kasper
- #1867
- Kasper on the 2025 chart
- #612
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kasper went to 84 boys in 2025, but Casper is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 339, which makes it the 612th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,255 places above the chart.
- Casper255
- Kasper84
About 1 boy in 5,039 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 20,334 for Kasper itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Johnathen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kasper's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Johnathen climbed just as high around 1995, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Johnathen's path sketches the road Kasper is walking now.
Kasper sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kasper is headed
Kasper looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kasper beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kasper in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The treasurer reading fits the magi story unusually neatly.
- That the magi were unnumbered and unnamed in the Gospel is a genuinely good fact.
- It is standard in Danish, Polish, Czech and Dutch naming.
- The Persian derivation is plausible rather than proven.
- A friendly cartoon ghost carries the Casper spelling.
- Casper and Kaspar are both in wide use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kaspers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Kasper are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kasper?
- Kasper is one of 2 recorded spellings. Casper is the more common one — 255 births in 2025 against 84 for Kasper.
- How popular is the name Kasper in 2025?
- Kasper ranks #1867 among US boy names in 2025, with 84 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kasper?
- About 1 in every 20,334 US boys born in 2025 was named Kasper — 84 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kasper with classmates?
- Kasper will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kasper
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