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Gaspard

#9,181 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jasper

Gaspard has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #9,181 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Gaspard, 2025

1 in 414,000

Gaspard over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaspard: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jasper

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gaspard means

Gaspard is a form of Jasper.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Gaspard is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jasper.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Gaspard is pronounced /ɡas.paʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Gaspard between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2018; its best national rank was #6,133 in 2018.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,017 in 2015 to #9,181 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 Gaspard?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,181
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaspard 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaspard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gaspards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaspard was born before 2018 — so the typical Gaspard is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
63.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
104
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Choose a decade

2010s — 63.5% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Gaspard 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−164
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2018 (14)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,133
2018

Spellings of Gaspard

Gaspard is not the most common spelling — Rashard is, with 41.7% against Gaspard's 1.6%.

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 Gaspard is used

Across 1910–2025, Gaspard was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,258 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Gaspard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gaspard around the world

Where Gaspard 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
    2004–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #37
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #1,144
    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.

Gaspard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,181
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,133
2018
Peak year
2018
14 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Gaspard

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

ShephardAlucardDeckardLeonhardReshardRachardJernardDerwardRoshardGaspareShanardDennardGunnardHarvardGerrardLinwardRennardJarrardGlenardLynardRishardErhardMallardEverard

Sibling names for Gaspard

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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