Kasper

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Kaspar ^[1]

Related Names

See Kaspar

Name Days

Norway

9 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 October

Sweden

6 January

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Kasper
Accusative:	Kasper
Dative:	Kasper
Genitive:	Kaspers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1465 ^[1]

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.	19181	n.a
Norway[3]		0	0	1930	2242
Sweden[4]		0	0	1899	2338
Finland[5]		n.a.	1	n.a	4603
#: 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^[4][2][3][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

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

References

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