Jasper
About 63,674 American babies have been named Jasper since 1880, most of them around 2023. In 2025 it ranked 129th. About 50,000 Jaspers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jasper boys named Jasper
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 63,674
- Estimated living today
- 50,000
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 122nd
- Rank in 2025
- 129th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,246 / 62,428
How old the living Jaspers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 63,674 babies given the name since 1880, about 50,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 37,000 of them are children and 2,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old Persian
A name given to one of the Magi in a medieval European cult, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר, ultimately from xme-old *ganǰabarah; see it for more.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jaspers
- Jasper Cillessen (born 1989)Dutch association football player
- Jasper Johns (born 1930)American painter and sculptor
- Jasper Stuyven (born 1992)Belgian cyclist
- Jasper Tudor (1431–1496)English duke
- Jasper Philipsen (born 1998)Belgian cyclist
- Jasper Pääkkönen (born 1980)Finnish actor and entrepreneur
- Jasper Fforde (born 1961)English novelist
- Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900)American painter
People named Jasper with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jasper is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jasper is most concentrated in North Carolina (2.4×), South Carolina (2.0×), Oregon (2.0×), Arkansas (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Jasper peaked:
Jasper elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Jasper | 12,590 | 63rd |
| Belgium boys | Jasper | 4,618 | 28th |
| New Zealand boys | Jasper | 734 | 38th |
| Scotland boys | Jasper | 342 | 171st |
| Ireland boys | Jasper | 193 | 271st |
| Switzerland boys | Jasper | 186 | 424th |
| France boys | Jasper | 185 | 2,136th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jasper | 119 | 134th |
| Poland boys | Jasper | 81 birth registrations | 366th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jasper: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jasper | 152 | 0.012% | 364th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jasper | 32 | 0.007% | 296th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jasper | 2 | 0.003% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jasper is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 70 of them.
Jasper: rank by region
In 2025, Jasper was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jasper | 229 | 26 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jasper appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd), Province of Antwerp (163rd) and Province of East Flanders (264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jasper by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 274 | 79th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jasper among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Jasper | 19,795 | 24,096 |
| Finland boys | Jasper | 2,892 | 3,789 |
| the Netherlands girls | Jasper | — | 16 |
| Finland girls | Jasper | 11 | 13 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jasper against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.