Jesper
given name · Latin script
Meaning: in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɛsbər/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jesper is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 177(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 475
- NONorway1 in 1.5K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 177 (inferred from the name graph)
33,139 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., dänische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jesper 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #10 | 33,139 | 1 in 177 | 33K | Jesper | 229 |
| SE Sweden | #91 | 21,476 | 1 in 475 | 21K | Jesper | 136 |
| BJ Benin | #91 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Jesper | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | #527 | 6,018 | 1 in 2.9K | 6K | Jesper | 75 |
| TN Tunisia | #229 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Jesper | 1 |
| NO Norway | #416 | 3,723 | 1 in 1.5K | 14K | Jesper | 78 |
| FI Finland | #913 | 2,630 | 1 in 2.1K | 3K | Jesper | 30 |
33,139 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jesper is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Danish form of JASPER , still a very popular name in Denmark.
as a word
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)
- Jesper Allan Christensenb. 1948DKDanish actor
- Jesper Skibbyb. 1964DKDanish cyclist, born 1964
- Jesper Kydb. 1972DKDanish composer and sound designer
- Jesper Blomqvistb. 1974SESwedish association football player
- Jesper Grønkjærb. 1977GLDanish footballer
- Jesper Christiansenb. 1978DKDanish footballer
- Jesper Salénb. 1978SESwedish actor
- Jesper Karlströmb. 1995SESwedish footballer (born 1995)
- Jesper Karlssonb. 1998SESwedish association football player (born 1998)
- Jesper Lindstrømb. 2000DKDanish association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Jesper?
- A machine transcription gives /jɛsbər/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What does the name Jesper mean?
- Recorded meaning: in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl.
- Is Jesper a male or female name?
- Jesper 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 Jesper have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Jesper, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jesper.
- Where is Jesper most common?
- Jesper is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 177 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Jesper?
- In the etymology graph, Kacper, Gaspare and Caspar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Jesper?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 33,139 people named Jesper, about 1 in 177 residents.
- How common is Jesper compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jesper is the 10th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jesperThe 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, “Jesper” — the 10th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.