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Jesper

#4,186 in 2025Boys' name

God, through Ásbjǫrn

Jesper has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #4,186 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Jesper, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jesper: meaning, origin, and history

God, through Ásbjǫrn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jesper means

Jesper belongs to the name family reached through Jesper → Ásbjǫrn. Its meaning is “god”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jesper is used in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Jesper comes through Old Norse Ásbjǫrn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kasper and Ásbjǫrn.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Jesper is pronounced /ˈjesper/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 245 boys were recorded with the name Jesper between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,159 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,081 in 2020 to #4,186 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,858 in 2015 to #4,186 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 Jesper?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,186
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jesper 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jesper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jespers were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
245
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Jesper 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
+960
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,895
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,672
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.2%
Peak was 2023 (26)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,159
2023

Spellings of Jesper

Jesper is not the most common spelling — Jesse is, with 66.8% against Jesper's 0.04%.

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 Jesper is used

Across 1910–2025, Jesper was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,075,654 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Jesper has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jesper around the world

Where Jesper 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
    1998–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #55
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jesper by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,186
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,895
Best rank ever
#4,159
2023
Peak year
2023
26 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
245
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Jesper

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

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Sibling names for Jesper

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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