Kasper

• Casper

Kasper

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Caspar

• (male given names) Jesper
• (surnames) Caspersen, Kaspersen

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 19 060 males with the given name Kasper (compared to 11 153 named Casper) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

From Swedish Kasper.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑsper/, [ˈkɑ̝s̠pe̞r]
• Rhymes: -ɑsper
• Syllabification^(key): Kas‧per

Kasper

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Caspar
2. a Finnish surname

• Kasper is the 146^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,234 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,458 more), and also belongs to 8 female individuals (and as a middle name to 7 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
• The surname Kasper belongs to 146 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Byform of the name German Kaspar, via Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar) from Classical Syriac ܓܙܒܪܐ (gēzaḇrā), from Old Persian *ganzabarah, from Old Median *ganǰabarah.

Compare Bavarian Kasperl.

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Kasper m (strong, genitive Kaspers, plural Kasper, diminutive Kasperle n)

1. clown (normally a puppet)

• Kaspertheater
• Klassenkasper

• Casper

Kasper

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Caspar

• Casper

Kasper c (genitive Kaspers)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Caspar

• kepsar, skarpe