Jesper

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Nordic variant form of Jasper (see Kaspar) ^[1]

2) "Latinised" form of Esbjörn (see Ǣsbiǫrn) ^[1]

Related Names

Jesper	♂
Jesperus	♂

Name Days

Finland

20 October

Norway

9 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 October

Sweden

26 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1432 ^[1]

Namesakes

Jesper Swedberg (28 August 1653 – 26 July 1735), bishop of Skara, Sweden

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[2]		0	n.a.	34350	n.a
Sweden[3]		0	0	17163	20430
Norway[4]		0	0	1862	2210
Finland[5]		n.a.	1	n.a	1986
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][2][4][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[3] [2] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi