Given name & surname
Jasper
“one who holds the treasure”
Jasper is used as a given name and a surname. One Persian interpretation is “one who holds the treasure.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Persian interpretation is “one who holds the treasure.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Persian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jasper through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63,674
- 62,428 boys · 1,246 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 3,014 babies
- 2025
- 2,845
- #129 for boys · #3,672 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +20%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 2,804 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 129 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 19.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 41 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (325). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 31,500 as a first name in 2020; 9,214 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.
Jasper’s family of names
In English usage, Jasper has a diminutive in Jazz. Jasper shares a linguistic root with Jesper. In Dutch usage, Jasper was borrowed from the Spanish form Gaspar.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jasper has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Persian roots to each of them.
12 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Jazzdiminutive · English
- Jespervariant
- Casparvariant · English, French
- Jazdiminutive · English
- Jasdiminutive · English
- Jaspyrvariant
- Jasparvariant
- Jassperlikely variant
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Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Jasper
- Jasper CillessenDutch association football player (born 1989)
- Jasper JohnsAmerican painter and sculptor (1930)
- Jasper StuyvenBelgian cyclistborn 1992
- Jasper PhilipsenBelgian cyclistborn 1998
- Jasper TudorEnglish duke1431–1496
- Jack DanielAmerican distiller and founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery. (1850–1911)1849–1911
- Jasper FfordeEnglish novelist (born 1961)
- Jasper Francis CropseyAmerican painter (1823–1900)
- Jasper De Buystracing cyclistborn 1993
Characters named Jasper: Jasper Beardsley (The Simpsons character), Jasper Hale (Twilight), Jasper Sitwell (Marvel Comics).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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