Jasper Forename
Approximately 90,243 people bear this name
Jasper Forename Definition:
A male name. Jasper is the usual English form of Gaspar or Caspar, which was the traditional name of one of the Three Kings (Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar) into whom medieval legend transformed the ‘wise men' who came to Bethlehem to worship the infant Christ.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 100% | 22,426 | 1:754 | 166 |
| United States | 100% | 14,859 | 1:24,398 | 1,844 |
| Philippines | 97% | 14,287 | 1:7,420 | 1,099 |
| Uganda | 95% | 9,692 | 1:4,226 | 512 |
| South Africa | 100% | 2,911 | 1:18,733 | 2,662 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 2,458 | 1:72,239 | 4,612 |
| Tanzania | 99% | 2,344 | 1:22,521 | 2,212 |
| Kenya | 100% | 2,322 | 1:19,943 | 1,950 |
| Ghana | 100% | 1,966 | 1:13,726 | 1,182 |
| Belgium | 100% | 1,720 | 1:6,680 | 881 |
| England | 100% | 1,526 | 1:36,437 | 1,913 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 1,441 | 1:10,704 | 1,413 |
| Zambia | - | 1,367 | 1:11,598 | 1,219 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,224 | 1:25,174 | 3,238 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,181 | 1:2,441 | 533 |
| Liberia | 100% | 833 | 1:5,297 | 616 |
| Canada | 100% | 701 | 1:47,266 | 3,175 |
| Germany | 100% | 659 | 1:146,704 | 2,621 |
| Malawi | 93% | 656 | 1:26,086 | 2,174 |
| Thailand | 100% | 501 | 1:139,852 | 10,490 |
| India | 84% | 499 | 1:2,434,625 | 119,065 |
| Finland | 100% | 403 | 1:13,606 | 914 |
| Malaysia | 95% | 363 | 1:83,884 | 6,199 |
| Indonesia | - | 337 | 1:765,471 | 51,215 |
| China | - | 329 | 1:4,152,145 | 53,295 |
| Denmark | - | 296 | 1:19,086 | 1,162 |
| Singapore | 100% | 258 | 1:24,368 | 4,247 |
| Papua New Guinea | 94% | 243 | 1:33,549 | 3,329 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 203 | 1:106,456 | 5,454 |
| Australia | - | 200 | 1:68,288 | 2,899 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 178 | 1:3,264 | 479 |
| New Zealand | - | 174 | 1:26,069 | 1,836 |
| Brazil | 100% | 131 | 1:1,635,390 | 36,807 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 119 | 1:60,101 | 5,261 |
| Hong Kong | - | 107 | 1:72,455 | 2,661 |
| Iraq | 100% | 77 | 1:454,777 | 5,303 |
| Kuwait | - | 76 | 1:49,806 | 4,237 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 75 | 1:984,368 | 29,064 |
| Sweden | 97% | 75 | 1:131,439 | 5,235 |
| Qatar | 100% | 74 | 1:32,022 | 4,280 |
| France | 100% | 60 | 1:1,107,839 | 8,314 |
| Ireland | 100% | 58 | 1:80,061 | 2,187 |
| Scotland | 100% | 49 | 1:109,191 | 2,512 |
| Russia | 100% | 47 | 1:3,068,802 | 17,759 |
| Spain | 100% | 43 | 1:1,082,092 | 9,010 |
| Switzerland | 97% | 41 | 1:200,329 | 4,666 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 33 | 1:182,374 | 4,876 |
| Wales | 98% | 28 | 1:110,511 | 2,590 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 26 | 1:3,823 | 748 |
| Norway | 100% | 26 | 1:197,397 | 4,991 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 24 | 1:990,403 | 38,270 |
| South Korea | - | 22 | 1:252,019 | 8,670 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 21 | 1:9,255,128 | 68,083 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 19 | 1:549,014 | 14,985 |
| Barbados | - | 18 | 1:16,099 | 1,338 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| Botswana | 100% | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| Mozambique | - | 16 | 1:1,702,710 | 1,919 |
| Peru | 100% | 15 | 1:2,119,430 | 21,304 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 13 | 1:104,725 | 7,155 |
| Italy | 94% | 12 | 1:5,088,508 | 23,387 |
| Japan | - | 12 | 1:10,665,505 | 35,725 |
| Ecuador | - | 11 | 1:1,611,538 | 10,117 |
| Estonia | 100% | 11 | 1:119,580 | 4,476 |
| Mexico | 100% | 11 | 1:11,285,857 | 32,937 |
| Panama | 100% | 11 | 1:355,142 | 11,047 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| Hungary | 100% | 10 | 1:979,177 | 2,758 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Egypt | 100% | 9 | 1:10,211,216 | 21,716 |
| Morocco | - | 9 | 1:3,816,515 | 8,291 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 9 | 1:6,074 | 908 |
| Poland | 100% | 9 | 1:4,225,235 | 4,388 |
| Togo | - | 9 | 1:804,360 | 4,738 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Guyana | - | 8 | 1:95,408 | 7,334 |
| Kazakhstan | 50% | 8 | 1:2,218,356 | 16,526 |
| Namibia | - | 8 | 1:300,522 | 5,486 |
| Czechia | 84% | 7 | 1:1,522,309 | 4,223 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 7 | 1:7,319 | 1,092 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 6 | 1:307,191 | 2,078 |
| Belarus | 100% | 6 | 1:1,580,397 | 7,457 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:5,208 | 987 |
| Honduras | - | 6 | 1:1,469,578 | 13,832 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 6 | 1:5,033,649 | 67,876 |
| Argentina | - | 5 | 1:8,554,649 | 17,386 |
| Iceland | - | 5 | 1:73,203 | 3,413 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 5 | 1:21,949 | 2,239 |
| Vietnam | - | 5 | 1:18,524,623 | 4,897 |
| Bahamas | - | 4 | 1:99,842 | 1,712 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Cambodia | - | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Guatemala | - | 4 | 1:4,027,107 | 7,742 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Colombia | - | 3 | 1:15,926,309 | 51,235 |
| Croatia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 3 | 1:59,272 | 4,116 |
| Turkey | 100% | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Afghanistan | - | 2 | 1:16,311,758 | 48,279 |
| Austria | - | 2 | 1:4,257,100 | 13,469 |
| Belize | 100% | 2 | 1:177,154 | 5,935 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Chile | 100% | 2 | 1:8,803,604 | 33,591 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 2 | 1:2,383,974 | 18,662 |
| Grenada | 100% | 2 | 1:54,062 | 3,078 |
| Lebanon | 50% | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Greece | - | 1 | 1:10,934,548 | 22,228 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Israel | 100% | 1 | 1:8,402,918 | 45,019 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| New Caledonia | - | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Transnistria | - | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
The alternate forms: Jásper (1) are calculated separately.
Jasper (28,586) may also be a surname.
Jasper Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Jasper is the usual English form of Gaspar or Caspar, which was the traditional name of one of the Three Kings (Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar) into whom medieval legend transformed the ‘wise men' who came to Bethlehem to worship the infant Christ. The Gospels say nothing of their number or their names, but the legend evidently arose early. The Three Kings and their names appear in an 11th-C painting. Their supposed remains were translated from Constantinople in the 12th C and were ultimately enshrined at Cologne: Kaspar, in consequence, became a fairly common name in Germany; and Gaspard in France, Gaspar in Spain, Gaspare in Italy were not uncommon. Jasper or Jesper are found in England from the 16th C, and must have been in use much earlier (cf. the surnames Jasper, Jesper), but the name has never been popular in this country. The etymology is unknown; it is probably of Eastern origin. See also Balthasar.
In Persian, ‘master of the treasure’—even if it be only of his own integrity. Most jewel-names are f: e. g., Beryl, Ruby.
A male name derived from Arab, بشي, or Pers. yashp, the precious stone jasper.
Meaning: he will be made bare: he will be made prominent.
A Persian name, meaning: Treasure seeker. (Greek) A semiprecious stone.
Jasper Forename Popularity
Jasper Demographics
Average Male Jasper Height
176.18 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
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