Kaspar
Kaspar was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,308 among boys’ names; 169 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaspar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaspar mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Kaspar is “a male given name”
Via Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), from Classical Syriac ܓܙܒܪܐ (gēzaḇrā), from Old Persian *ganzabarah, from Old Median *ganǰabarah. Compare Bavarian Kasperl.
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaspar?
#9,308 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaspar fell from #7,770 in 2015 to #9,308 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.
11 babies in 2008, the peak
Kaspar peaked in 2008, when 11 boys were given it, #7,458 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,308 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,270 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,350 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,042 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,863 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,086 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,529 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,480 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,448 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,770 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,210 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,198 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,298 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,187 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,478 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,458 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,405 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,037 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,871 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,239 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,600 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,480 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,709 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaspar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaspar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaspar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaspar, and how old are they?
An estimated 167 Americans named Kaspar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 247 people named Kaspar (7 women and girls, 240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,208 babies since 1880, Kaspar is the fourth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 367 babies (2.2%), again the fourth 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 Kaspar
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 Kaspar and names like it
- Compare Kaspar and CasperBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaspar peaked in 2008.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaspar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kaspar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaspar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.