Gasper
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gasper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In English, recorded as A person or animal that gasps.
- USUnited States1 in 68K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 133K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 3.4K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈61,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gašper in SI Slovenia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Gasper (see Casper). It may also be a reduced form of the Slovenian patronymics Gaspersic or Gaspercic.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gasper is read(measured from records)
Gasper 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.
- English76%
A person or animal that gasps.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.2%
from the personal name Gasper (see Casper). It may also be a reduced form of the Slovenian patronymics Gaspersic or Gaspercic.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Lenisierte G-Variante zu Caspar/Kaspar; zeigt den Wechsel C/K > G/J im Patronym zu lat. Caspar (< altpers. kandschwar 'Schatzmeister'). Belegt 578 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Patronymische Namensgruppe mit Anlautvariation G/J; Form zu Kaspar/Jasper, bearers: 1364; platziert die G-Variante gegenüber J-Formen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Familienname; G/J-Varianz im Anlaut von Patronymen: Gasper/Jasper.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
variant of Kaspar (see Casper)
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)
Gasper 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Gasper | 5 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 2 | Gasper | 24 |
| US United States | 4,898 | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Gasper | 305 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Gasper | 27 |
| PH Philippines | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Gasper | 21 |
| SI Slovenia | 125 | 1 in 17K | 5.7K | Gašper | 26 |
| GY Guyana | 18 | 1 in 42K | 18 | — | 2 |
| DM Dominica | 11 | 1 in 6.7K | 11 | — | — |
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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
- Fritz Gasperb. 1925DEGerman civil servant and politician
- Elizabeth Gasperb. 1938BRBrazilian actress
- Elon Gasperb. 1952American businessman
- Robert Gasperb. 1958CACaandian luger
- Doris Trampnaub. 1959DEnot in their usual nameGerman bank teller and writer
- Chase Gasperb. 1996USAmerican soccer player
- Anna Gasperb. 1997DEGerman association football player
- Maren GasperDEGerman 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.9K | #6,869 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.7K | #6,653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.7K | #6,958 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 18 | #607 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 11 | #216 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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 surname 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
- Where does the name Gasper come from?
- from the personal name Gasper (see Casper). It may also be a reduced form of the Slovenian patronymics Gaspersic or Gaspercic. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Gasper mean?
- In English, A person or animal that gasps.
- In which country does Gasper have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 61 thousand people named Gasper in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gasper.
- How common is the name Gasper?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,898 people named Gasper in 2010, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
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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, “Gasper”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.