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Casper

#924 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly rich, through Caspar

Casper has been given to 6,229 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #924 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 274 recorded.

Babies named Casper, 2025

1 in 13,000

Casper over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Casper: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly rich, through Caspar

Old Persian, English and Medieval Latin

What Casper means

Casper belongs to the name family reached through Casper → Caspar → *ganǰabarah. Its meaning is “rich”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Alternative spelling of Caspar. The slur denoting a white person is an allusion to Casper the Friendly Ghost. The skateboarding term is named after Bobby Boyden, a professional skateboarder who was given the nickname "Casper" as a child because of his pale skin (again in allusion to the friendly ghost).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Casper (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Casper is used in English, Cebuano, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish and Tagalog. Its origins include Old Persian, English and Medieval Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caspar, Kasper and *ganǰabarah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Casper is pronounced /ˈkæspɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,208 boys were recorded with the name Casper between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 274 in 2024; its best national rank was #332 in 1889.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,226 in 2020 to #924 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,755 in 2015 to #924 in 2025.

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Casper between 2019 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2019; its best national rank was #14,160 in 2019.

How common is Casper?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,000
255 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,700
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#924
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,013 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Casper sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,013 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Casper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caspers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Casper was born before 1969 — so the typical Casper is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,512
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (1,262).

Is Casper rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−43
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+302
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+831
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.93×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.1%
Peak was 2024 (274)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#332
1889

Spellings of Casper

Casper is not the most common spelling — Carter is, with 30.8% against Casper's 0.93%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Casper is used

Across 2016–2025, Casper was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 11,064 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 5,556
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 5,556
  3. 3Washington1 in 6,250
  4. 4New York1 in 6,667
  5. 5Michigan1 in 7,692
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 7,692
  7. 7California1 in 8,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 8,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Casper around the world

Where Casper ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #167
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2025
    #270
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2024
    #3,319
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #76
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #679
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Casper

People whose public names include Casper, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Casper in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Casper. Linked forms have their own page here.

CasparGasparKacperKasparKasperGaspardGaspareGašperGáspárGasperoKasperi

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Casper by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#924
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 302
Best rank ever
#332
1889
Peak year
2024
274 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,208
Count in 2025
255

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,160
2019
Peak year
2019
6 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Casper

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CasenCasimirCaspianCassiusCastielCassidyHarperCasonCassianCashtonKooperCaseCastonCashelKemperCassCasparKasperCastorCastleCasmirKacperCashCashus

Names with a curve like Casper

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Casper, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AmbroseArchibaldLoyalJonesPalmerLeopoldSmithHollandMurphyHamptonLevyLucien

Sibling names for Casper

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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