Kaspar
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from the German and Polish male personal name Kaspar, ultimately of Persian origin, meaning literally ‘treasurer’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkæspɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaspar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 170K
- CZCzechia1 in 2.3K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,662 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the German and Polish male personal name Kaspar, ultimately of Persian origin, meaning literally ‘treasurer’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kaspar is read(measured from records)
Kaspar 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.
- English55%
from the German and Polish male personal name Kaspar, ultimately of Persian origin, meaning literally ‘treasurer’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German22%
from the name of one of the Three Kings, probably from pers. Kansbar 'treasurer'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from Persian/Greek name of one of the Magi; source of clownish stock forms
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
traditional name of one of the Magi; origin probably Iranian
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Caspar of the Magi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Vom Vornamen Kaspar/Kasper; die Karte zeigt Sprechvariation mit Endsilbenabschwächung und Umlaut im Stammvokal (z. B. Kesper u. ä.). 2636 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
Kaspar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 4,662 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.7K | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Kaspar | 133 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Kaspar | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,954 | 1 in 170K | 2K | Kaspar | 238 |
| CH Switzerland | #769 | 953 | 1 in 8.8K | 953 | Kaspar | 69 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 117 | Kaspar | 56 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 185 | 1 in 29K | 185 | — | 1 |
4,662 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
- Wilhelm Kasparb. 1853LVBaltic German cleric (1853-1919)
- Mizzi Kasparb. 1864ATAustrian actress and mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf (1864–1907)
- Paul Kasparb. 1891ATAustrian painter (1891-1953)
- Hans Kasparb. 1902CHSwiss cyclist
- Hermann Kasparb. 1904DEGerman painter (1904-1986)
- Felix Kasparb. 1915ATAustrian figure skater (1915–2003)
- Danny Kasparb. 1954USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Carlos Kasparb. 1965ARArgentine actor y psicólogo
- Tobias Kasparb. 1984CHartist
- Jeannine Kasparactress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #15,099 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,324 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 953 | #1,251 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 87 | #18,949 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 87 | #8,223 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Kaspar mean, and where does it come from?
- from the German and Polish male personal name Kaspar, ultimately of Persian origin, meaning literally ‘treasurer’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Kaspar?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkæspɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Kaspar?
- In the etymology graph, Gaspar, Kasper and Gaspard are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kaspar have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Kaspar, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaspar most common?
- Kaspar is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kaspar?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4,662 people named Kaspar, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaspar compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Kaspar is the 769th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kasparThe 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, “Kaspar” — the 769th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.