Casper
Casper reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 880, and has been recorded 6,229 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 924th. About 3,600 Caspers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Casper boys named Casper
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,229
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 880th
- Rank in 2025
- 924th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 21 / 6,208
How old the living Caspers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,229 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,600 are alive — 57 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 380 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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
Alternative spelling of Caspar. The slur denoting a white person is an allusion to Casper the Friendly Ghost. The skateboarding term is named after Bobby Boyden, a professional skateboarder who was given the nickname "Casper" as a child because of his pale skin (again in allusion to the friendly ghost).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Caspers
- Casper Ruud (born 1998)Norwegian tennis player
- Casper Ulrich Mortensen (born 1989)Danish handball player
- Casper Nielsen (born 1994)Danish footballer
- Casper von Folsach (born 1993)Danish racing cyclist, born 1993
- Casper Tengstedt (born 2000)Danish footballer
- Casper Jørgensen (born 1985)Danish racing cyclist, born 1985
- Casper Pedersen (born 1996)Danish cyclist, born 1996
- Casper Ankergren (born 1979)Danish association football player
People named Casper with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Casper is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Casper is most concentrated in North Dakota (6.7×), New York (2.5×), Minnesota (2.1×), Washington (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Casper peaked:
Casper elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden boys | Casper | 7,871 | 37th |
| England and Wales boys | Casper | 3,534 | 167th |
| Norway boys | Casper | 2,776 | 67th |
| Belgium boys | Casper | 1,530 | 178th |
| Poland boys | Casper | 429 birth registrations | 190th |
| Scotland boys | Casper | 139 | 316th |
| Ireland boys | Casper | 86 | 421st |
| France boys | Casper | 50 | 3,319th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Casper | 12 | 270th |
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.
Casper: rank by region
In 2025, Casper was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Casper | 102 | 55 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Casper appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (57th), Province of Limburg (89th), Province of West Flanders (95th), Province of East Flanders (106th) and Province of Antwerp (163rd).
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.
Casper by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 23 | 321st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Casper 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 | Casper | 8,902 | 12,581 |
| Finland boys | Casper | 1,272 | 1,758 |
| the Netherlands girls | Casper | — | 58 |
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
Casper 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.