Given name & surname
Kaspar
“the keeper of the treasure”
Kaspar 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.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kaspar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 169
- 169 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,312 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +58%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,312 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 247 as a first name in 2020; 1,844 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.
Kaspar’s family of names
Kaspar shares a linguistic root with Jasper. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Kaspar has a related form in Casper. Kaspar has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form KACPER.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kaspar has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Persian roots to each of them.
9 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Caspervariant · Norwegian Bokmål
- Kaspervariant · German, Norwegian Bokmål
- Casparvariant · Norwegian Bokmål, English
- Caspersvariant · German
- Kansbervariant
- Kansbarvariant
- Kasbervariant
- Kasbarvariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
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.
People named Kaspar
- Kaspar CapparoniItalian actorborn 1964
- Kaspar Hauserman with a mysterious history (1812–1833)
- Kaspar Maria von SternbergCzech botanist, geologist, paleontologist and nobleman (1761-1838)
- Kaspar Villigermember of the Swiss Federal Councilborn 1941
- Kaspar TaimsooEstonian rower (born 1987)
- Kaspar von Stielerpoet (1632-1707)
- Kaspar RostrupDanish theatre and film director1940–2025
- Kaspar HasselNorwegian sailor (1877–1962)
- Kaspar, Count Palatine of ZweibrückenGerman nobleman; nominal Count Palatine of Zweibrücken1458–1527
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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