Kasper
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: German; see Gaspar/Jasper, one of the three Wise Men in the New Testament
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkæspɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kasper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greenland it is the 95th most common surname.
- BRBrazil1 in 133K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 27Kas Casper
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 8.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kasper 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
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
12,351 named Casper, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Burkina Faso, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Dutch/German form of Casper, from Persian/Aramaic tradition meaning 'treasurer'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kasper is read(measured from records)
Kasper is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English70%
German; see Gaspar/Jasper, one of the three Wise Men in the New Testament
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Danish55%
a male given name, equivalent to English Caspar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German15%
German surname from the Casper/Kasper type; consonant variation with initial C/K and p/b in the cluster. Bearer count: 6777.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Vom Vornamen Kaspar/Kasper; die Karte zeigt die Vokalvariation zwischen -a- und -e- sowie Endsilbenabschwächung. 10455 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)
Kasper 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,351as Casper | 1 in 27K | 12K | Kasper | 148 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Kasper | 1 |
| BF Burkina Faso | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Kasper | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,593 | 1 in 133K | 1.6K | Kasper | 64 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Kasper | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 47 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 698 | 1 in 12K | 698 | Kasper | 23 |
| FI Finland | — | 367 | 1 in 15K | 8.2K | Kasper | 55 |
| GL Greenland | #95 | — | — | 81 | Kasper | 9 |
12,351 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling casper. 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 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kasper is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Dutch/German form of Casper, from Persian/Aramaic tradition meaning 'treasurer'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Forme germanique de Gaspard; d’origine sanskrite, « celui qui vient voir ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Maria Katharina Kasperb. 1820DEGerman nun and saint of Catholic church (1820-1898)
- Ludwig Kasperb. 1893ATAustrian sculptor (1893–1945)
- John Kasperb. 1929USAmerican publisher
- Jan Kasperb. 1932CZCzechoslovak ice hockey player (1932–2005)
- Walter Kasperb. 1933DEcardinal and bishop of the Catholic Church
- Gian Franco Kasperb. 1944CHSwiss skiing administrator (1944–2021)
- Gary Kasperb. 1958USactor
- Steve Kasperb. 1961CACanadian ice hockey player
- Len Kasperb. 1971USAmerican sportscaster
- Romy Kasperb. 1988DEGerman cyclist
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 78 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,287 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.5K | #3,631 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #6,010 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 698 | #1,811 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 367 | #4,525 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- 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
- Where does the name Kasper come from?
- Dutch/German form of Casper, from Persian/Aramaic tradition meaning 'treasurer'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What does the name Kasper mean?
- In English, German; see Gaspar/Jasper, one of the three Wise Men in the New Testament
- What are other forms of the name Kasper?
- In the etymology graph, Gaspar, Gaspard and Kaspar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kasper have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Casper, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kasper?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,593 people named Kasper, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
- How common is Kasper compared with other names?
- In Greenland, Kasper is the 95th most common surname of 229 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Kasper?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkæspɝ/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Kasper?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kasperThe 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, “Kasper” — the 95th most common surname in Greenland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.