Jasper

At the 2020 census, 9,214 Americans bore the surname Jasper — 3,752nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 32,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,214
Rank: 3,752nd
How common: 1 in 32,400
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jasper described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 63.8%
Black, not Hispanic 26.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Jasper

Marrit Jasper (born 1996)Dutch volleyball player

People named Jasper with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jasper

Also a first name

Jasper has been given to 63,674 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.