Kasper

What Kasper means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kasper yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #469 vs #1,867 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kasper?

US: Rising: up from #2412 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #557 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 95 boys got the name (#1735 that year). First in the US records in 1912.

How common

• About 1 in 20,334 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,276 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in IL (0.12 per 1,000 boys), OH (0.1 per 1,000 boys), PA (0.1 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Kasper is #1867 in the US and #469 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Kasper were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Casper255 US · 304 E&W
• Caspar20 US · 48 E&W
• Gaspar40 US
• Kaspar8 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kasper

Boys

• Callahan#227Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,804 in 2015, #227 in 2025
• Koa#269Hawaiian, meaning “warrior, courage; koa tree”^*
• Bodhi#265Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 5 babies
• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*
• Tate#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #420 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Kaiden#237Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1992, with 12 babies

For a sister

• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Juniper#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #427 in 2015, #100 in 2025
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kasper’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.