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Gaspar

#3,052 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jasper

Gaspar has been given to 2,211 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #3,052 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Gaspar, 2025

1 in 82,900

Gaspar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaspar: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jasper

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gaspar means

Gaspar is a form of Jasper.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gaspar → Jasper → *ganǰabarah. The family’s proposed meaning is “rich”, recorded in Old Median with the source elements ɣzdk.

Origin, language, and formation

Gaspar is used in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jasper and Caspar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Gaspar is pronounced /ɡasˈpa(ʁ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,211 boys were recorded with the name Gaspar between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,716 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,738 in 2020 to #3,052 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,724 in 2015 to #3,052 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gaspar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 42,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,052
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaspar 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaspar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gaspars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaspar was born before 1993 — so the typical Gaspar is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,764
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (342).

Is Gaspar 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
−406
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−314
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+672
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2024 (50)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,716
1930

Spellings of Gaspar

Gaspar is not the most common spelling — Jasper is, with 84.0% against Gaspar's 3.0%.

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 Gaspar is used

Across 1910–2025, Gaspar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 81,347 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —

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. Gaspar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gaspar around the world

Where Gaspar 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
    2006–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1960–2025
    #1,532
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Gaspar

People whose public names include Gaspar, 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.

Gaspar in other languages

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

CasparCasperKacperKasparKasperGaspardGaspareAsparCasparoGasperoKasperi

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

Gaspar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,052
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 314
Best rank ever
#1,716
1930
Peak year
2024
50 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,211
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Gaspar

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

GastonGasperCasparGaspareGaspardKasparJasparCoopar

Names with a curve like Gaspar

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

ArmenNinoAmonJhonPascalSalomonAugustinGeronimoCiroLucioEsauBaltazar

Sibling names for Gaspar

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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