Given name & surname
Caspar
“the keeper of the treasure”
Caspar is used as a given name and a surname. One Persian interpretation is “the keeper of the treasure.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Persian interpretation is “the keeper of the treasure.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Persian.
How it developed
In Dutch use, Caspar is used as a form of Jasper.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Caspar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 401
- 401 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #4,889 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −11%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,889 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 11.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 2018. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 379 as a first name in 2020; 370 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Caspar’s family of names
Caspar shares a linguistic root with Jasper. In English usage, Caspar has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Gaspar. In English usage, Caspar has a related form in Jasper.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Caspar has relatives in 18 languages. Lines run from its Persian roots to each of them.
16 related names in 18 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Jaspervariant · English, French
- Caspervariant · Norwegian Bokmål, English
- Kaspervariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Finnish
- Kasparvariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Faroese
- Caspersvariant · German
- Caspyrvariant
- Caspirvariant
- Casporvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Caspar
- Caspar David FriedrichGerman Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
- Gaspard BauhinSwiss botanist (1560-1624)
- Caspar WeinbergerAmerican politician (1917-2006)
- Caspar WesselDanish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer (1745–1818)
- Caspar Friedrich WolffGerman psychologist1734–1794
- Caspar Bartholin the YoungerDanish anatomist1655–1738
- Caspar MemeringGerman association football playerborn 1953
- Caspar SchwenckfeldGerman theologian1489–1561
- Caspar PeucerGerman physician (1525-1602)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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