Jasper
Jasper was given to 2,804 boys in 2025, #129 among boys’ names; 63,674 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 49,900 Americans named Jasper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jasper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jasper mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jasper is “a male given name from Old Persian.”
A name given to one of the Magi in a medieval European cult, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more.
/ˈd͡ʒæspɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jasper?
#129 among boys’ names, 2025
Jasper rose from #214 in 2015 to #129 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 1.0 to 1.6 per 1,000.
3,014 babies in 2023, the peak
Jasper peaked in 2023, when 3,014 babies were given it (2,944 boys, #122 among boys’ names). The 2,845 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 94% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,804 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 2,761 | #133 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 2,944 | #122 | 1.7 |
| 2022 | 2,919 | #129 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 2,876 | #128 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 2,640 | #138 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 2,793 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 2,506 | #155 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 2,117 | #183 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 1,915 | #209 | 1.0 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,866 | #214 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,755 | #218 | 0.91 |
| 2013 | 1,467 | #247 | 0.78 |
| 2012 | 1,358 | #263 | 0.72 |
| 2011 | 1,253 | #281 | 0.66 |
| 2010 | 1,184 | #285 | 0.62 |
| 2009 | 945 | #337 | 0.48 |
| 2008 | 627 | #449 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 585 | #466 | 0.28 |
| 2006 | 442 | #569 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 452 | #538 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 392 | #576 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 470 | #513 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 479 | #483 | 0.25 |
| 2001 | 390 | #549 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 334 | #592 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 281 | #633 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 300 | #611 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 274 | #628 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 252 | #660 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 238 | #684 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 207 | #729 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 225 | #687 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 243 | #664 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 251 | #644 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 269 | #613 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 231 | #654 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 248 | #591 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 204 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 171 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 177 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 144 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 174 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 154 | #702 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 194 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 163 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 152 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 144 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 133 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 118 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 119 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 101 | #799 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 102 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 105 | #779 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 108 | #783 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 99 | #814 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 117 | #722 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 94 | #767 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 124 | #671 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 107 | #720 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 120 | #680 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 140 | #656 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 142 | #655 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 160 | #610 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 153 | #634 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 179 | #581 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 174 | #591 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 186 | #566 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 169 | #589 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 181 | #564 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 187 | #542 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 209 | #500 | 0.10 |
| 1953 | 187 | #515 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 206 | #490 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 211 | #467 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 208 | #460 | 0.12 |
| 1949 | 194 | #472 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 225 | #444 | 0.13 |
| 1947 | 203 | #472 | 0.11 |
| 1946 | 201 | #448 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 191 | #431 | 0.14 |
| 1944 | 184 | #448 | 0.14 |
| 1943 | 252 | #386 | 0.18 |
| 1942 | 241 | #390 | 0.17 |
| 1941 | 208 | #403 | 0.17 |
| 1940 | 221 | #383 | 0.19 |
| 1939 | 221 | #382 | 0.20 |
| 1938 | 201 | #400 | 0.18 |
| 1937 | 219 | #370 | 0.21 |
| 1936 | 236 | #352 | 0.23 |
| 1935 | 212 | #371 | 0.20 |
| 1934 | 246 | #351 | 0.24 |
| 1933 | 231 | #356 | 0.23 |
| 1932 | 263 | #340 | 0.25 |
| 1931 | 252 | #345 | 0.24 |
| 1930 | 285 | #328 | 0.26 |
| 1929 | 306 | #316 | 0.28 |
| 1928 | 336 | #302 | 0.30 |
| 1927 | 346 | #309 | 0.31 |
| 1926 | 389 | #290 | 0.35 |
| 1925 | 387 | #292 | 0.35 |
| 1924 | 396 | #291 | 0.35 |
| 1923 | 403 | #282 | 0.37 |
| 1922 | 423 | #275 | 0.39 |
| 1921 | 390 | #284 | 0.35 |
| 1920 | 388 | #284 | 0.36 |
| 1919 | 423 | #260 | 0.43 |
| 1918 | 391 | #269 | 0.39 |
| 1917 | 377 | #262 | 0.41 |
| 1916 | 358 | #267 | 0.40 |
| 1915 | 332 | #265 | 0.39 |
| 1914 | 306 | #246 | 0.47 |
| 1913 | 248 | #238 | 0.48 |
| 1912 | 178 | #262 | 0.41 |
| 1911 | 114 | #239 | 0.50 |
| 1910 | 82 | #272 | 0.42 |
| 1909 | 83 | #241 | 0.51 |
| 1908 | 78 | #239 | 0.51 |
| 1907 | 87 | #219 | 0.59 |
| 1906 | 56 | #264 | 0.42 |
| 1905 | 80 | #213 | 0.60 |
| 1904 | 52 | #267 | 0.41 |
| 1903 | 57 | #245 | 0.48 |
| 1902 | 67 | #219 | 0.55 |
| 1901 | 58 | #229 | 0.54 |
| 1900 | 97 | #197 | 0.64 |
| 1899 | 65 | #203 | 0.61 |
| 1898 | 60 | #227 | 0.49 |
| 1897 | 83 | #184 | 0.74 |
| 1896 | 90 | #180 | 0.75 |
| 1895 | 71 | #203 | 0.60 |
| 1894 | 61 | #217 | 0.53 |
| 1893 | 72 | #199 | 0.64 |
| 1892 | 70 | #209 | 0.57 |
| 1891 | 58 | #206 | 0.57 |
| 1890 | 95 | #149 | 0.86 |
| 1889 | 76 | #178 | 0.69 |
| 1888 | 78 | #192 | 0.65 |
| 1887 | 65 | #190 | 0.64 |
| 1886 | 88 | #157 | 0.79 |
| 1885 | 87 | #156 | 0.81 |
| 1884 | 83 | #169 | 0.73 |
| 1883 | 74 | #165 | 0.71 |
| 1882 | 88 | #158 | 0.77 |
| 1881 | 83 | #150 | 0.82 |
| 1880 | 98 | #139 | 0.89 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jasper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 63,674 Americans recorded as Jasper, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 41 girls and 2,804 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jasper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jasper, and how old are they?
49,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 63,674 Americans ever recorded as Jasper. The median Jasper alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 31,500 people named Jasper (917 women and girls, 30,583 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 34,625 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 768 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,280 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 31,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jasper born?
The states with the most babies named Jasper are California, Texas and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 325 | #126 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 255 | #150 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 148 | #152 | 0.8× |
| New York | 139 | #141 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 120 | #112 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 93 | #81 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 89 | #83 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | #147 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 87 | #150 | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 81 | #151 | 1.3× |
Where Jasper is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jasper is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jasper with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 74,153 babies since 1880, Jasper is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,845 of their 3,252 babies (87%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jasper
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jasper and names like it
- Compare Jasper and CasperBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJasper peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jasper since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Jasper.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jasper alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.