Gaspar
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a male given name, equivalent to English Caspar or Casper
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gaspar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Angola it is the 42nd most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 925(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 1.6K
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.2K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 925 (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, 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)
A form of Jasper occasionally used in Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gaspar is read(measured from records)
Gaspar 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.
- Spanish53%
a male given name, equivalent to English Caspar or Casper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese19%
Caspar (one of the Magi)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
courtier (Kaspar); from Rebórdelo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- English16%
A form of Jasper occasionally used in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Gaspar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #721 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Gaspar | 59 |
| AO Angola | #42 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Gaspar | 46 |
| US United States | — | 11,251 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Gaspar | 254 |
| PT Portugal | #98 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 925 | listed | Gaspar | 151 |
| PE Peru | #524 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Gaspar | 62 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,563 | 1 in 2.7K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 1,506 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.5K | — | — |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gaspar 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.
from the personal name, which was common in central Europe up to the 18th century (see Casper).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a dialect form of the personal name Gasper (see Casper).
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)
- Enrique Gasparb. 1842ESSpanish writer (1842-1902)
- Alfredo Rodrigues Gasparb. 1865PTPortuguese politician (1865-1938)
- Dalmo Gasparb. 1932BRBrazilian association football player (1932-2015)
- Chuck Gasparb. 1938USvisual effects artist (1938-2009)
- Vítor Gasparb. 1960PTPortuguese economist and politician
- Edub. 1978BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Bruno Gasparb. 1993PTAngolan association football player
- José Luis Gasparb. 1995CUCuban hurdler
- Melani Garcíab. 2007ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Juan Pedro de Gasparproduction designer
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 92 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,078 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,210 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.6K | #4,327 |
Reference works 8
- 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
- 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
- Where does the name Gaspar come from?
- A form of Jasper occasionally used in Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Gaspar?
- In the etymology graph, Kasper, Gaspard and Kaspar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Gaspar mean?
- In Spanish, a male given name, equivalent to English Caspar or Casper
- In which country does Gaspar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Gaspar in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaspar.
- How common is the name Gaspar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,251 people named Gaspar in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaspar compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Gaspar is the 721st most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gasparThe 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, “Gaspar” — the 721st most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.