The name Jasper is a Dutch or English form of Kaspar and means ‘treasurer’. This meaning goes back to the Persian origin of the name: The word ‘kandschwar’ means ‘treasurer’.
Jasper is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Jasper isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jasper ranks 171. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 13 were named Jasper. In the entire USA, approximately 47,225 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jasper. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Jasper is a Dutch or English form of Kaspar and means ‘treasurer’. This meaning goes back to the Persian origin of the name: The word ‘kandschwar’ means ‘treasurer’.
What is a treasurer? A treasurer is a person responsible for managing and overseeing an organization's financial resources and assets. They are commonly found in businesses, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and political campaigns.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Jasper annualy. This means that there have been boys named Jasper 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 Jasper have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2022, it holds its present record of #122 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jasper was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The name Jasper may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Jasper is apparently especially popular in North Carolina. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,268 men in North Carolina is called Jasper. In total, that’s 3,617 people who feel addressed when the name Jasper is shouted loudly across North Carolina and who ensure that their name makes it to #249 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Jasper as the answer a total of 47,225 times. This places Jasper at #456 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Jasper as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With six letters, the name Jasper 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.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jasper 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 Jasper, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Sun
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jasper
Jasper
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
S
P
E
R
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.
J
A
S
P
E
R
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. Jasper sounds like this:
