Casper is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Casper is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1304 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,303 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Casper.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Casper annualy. This means that there have been boys named Casper who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Casper have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Casper even more than any other time: in 1889, it holds its present record at rank #311 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Casper was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Casper has never been ranked higher than #311. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,077 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 175 boys named Casper were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Casper were born, there have been 11 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Casper is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Casper and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Casper, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Sun
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Casper
Casper
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Casper sounds like this: