Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kacper through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,102
- 1,102 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 88 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,412 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −50%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,412 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 50.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 88 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,066 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kacper’s family of names
In Polish usage, Kacper has a diminutive in Kacperek. In Polish usage, Kacper shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Bokmål form Kasper. In Polish usage, Kacper has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jasper.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kacper has relatives in 25 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Kacper comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 25
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kacper
- Kacper KozłowskiPolish association football playerborn 2003
- Kacper UrbańskiPolish association football playerborn 2004
- Kacper TomasiakPolish ski jumperborn 2007
- Kacper PrzybyłkoPolish footballerborn 1993
- Kacper KozłowskiPolish sprinterborn 1986
- Kacper PiorunPolish chess grandmasterborn 1991
- Kacper MajchrzakPolish swimmerborn 1992
- Kacper StokowskiPolish swimmerborn 1999
- Kacper FilipiakPolish snooker playerborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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