Caspár

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Caspár is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 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.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 50K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 141K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

3,605 people

Sources
154 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Caspar in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Caspár: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Caspár
  1. Biblical Hebrewגִּזְבָּרgizbar(measured from records)
  2. Old Median*ganǰabarah(measured from records)

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.

Sources 5

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caspár 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.

Where Caspár is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands3,6051 in 4.8K3.5KCaspar78
DE Germany≈1,600 est.≈1 in 50K—Caspar126
GB United Kingdom≈470 est.≈1 in 141K4Caspar119
SE Sweden4651 in 22K465Caspar28
DK Denmark4601 in 13K460—1
CH Switzerland≈300 est.≈1 in 28K426Caspar53
EE Estonia≈61 est.≈1 in 20KlistedCaspar16

3,605 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Caspár is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Caspar

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Switzerland

    Also written Caspar

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Caspar

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Caspár
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—7#22,158

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Caspár mean, and where does it come from?
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. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
Is Caspár a male or female name?
Caspár is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Caspár have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Caspár, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caspar.
Where is Caspár most common?
Caspár is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Caspár?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,605 people named Caspár, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.

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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, “Caspár”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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