Gašpar
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Slovak: a male given name, equivalent to English Jasper
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gašpar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 3.6K
- ARArgentina1 in 6K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gašpar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
11,251 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gaspar in US United States, ES Spain.
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)
svetačko ime; prezime i izvedenice od njega
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gašpar is read(measured from records)
Gašpar is one spelling over 2 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.
- Croatian90%
svetačko ime; prezime i izvedenice od njega
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
- Slovak5.9%
a male given name, equivalent to English Jasper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Gašpar 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.
11,251 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Michal Gašparb. 1927SKSlovak lawyer
- Ján Gašparb. 1953SKSlovak lawyer, bibliographer and historian, director of the State Scientific Library in Košice in 1999 – 2018
- Gašpar Gašpar Mišičb. 1966HRSlovene businessperson and politician
- Renato Gašparb. 1977HRCroatian alpine skier
- Ivan Gašparb. 1978SKbadminton player
- Timotej GašparSIresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 240 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 203 | #1,150 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Gašpar mean?
- In Slovak, a male given name, equivalent to English Jasper
- In which country does Gašpar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Gašpar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaspar.
- Where is Gašpar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gašpar is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gašpar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,251 people named Gašpar in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Gašpar compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Gašpar is the 328th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gašpar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ga%C5%A1parThe 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, “Gašpar” — the 328th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.