Jasper

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Name of unknown meaning; traditionally one of the Magi

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

Jasper is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • CACanada
  • TNTunisia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
430 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Name of unknown meaning; traditionally one of the Magi.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jasper counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Jasper is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—31KJasper430
CA Canada—60Jasper151
GB United Kingdom—739Jasper196
IN India——Jasper71
TN Tunisia——Jasper5
NL Netherlands—20K—175
FI Finland—4K—25

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024). 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)

Jasper is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Jäsper, Jäspër

75 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jasper is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Compared as a west German variant without t-Antritt in this plate; bearer count: 1300.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In English, from the given name Caspar/Gaspar; first attested Jasper Pen 1522 LP. Rare in England.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In German, from Kaspar/Caspar, traditional name of one of the Magi

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • from the personal name Jasper, cognate with 1.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from a variant of the personal name Kaspar.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Jasper Tudor, b. 1431William Jasper, b. 1750Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, b. 1767Jack Daniel, b. 1849Jasper Johns, b. 1930Donald J. Harris, b. 1938Aubrey de Grey, b. 1963Bernhard Jasper, b. 1972Jasper Pääkkönen, b. 1980Jasper Cillessen, b. 1989

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 95 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Jasper
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202031K#1,220
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—20K#171
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—4K#362
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—3.7K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.8K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020917#1,220
GB United KingdomONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024)2024739#71
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024351—
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender202460#62
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202541—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—41#7,150
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)202428#160

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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 Jasper mean, and where does it come from?
Name of unknown meaning; traditionally one of the Magi. Recorded by Irish first names.
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Jasper is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled jasper.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jasper”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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