Casper

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Kasper [1]

Related Names

See Kaspar

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Casperinpoika Finland
Caspersen Denmark Norway
Casperson Norway Sweden
Casperssen Norway
Caspersson Norway Sweden
Casperssøn Norway
Caspersøn Norway

Female

Casperdatter Norway
Casperdotter Norway
Casperintytär Finland
Caspersdatter Denmark Norway
Caspersdotter Norway Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Casper
Genitive: Caspers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Casper
Genitive: Casperin
Partitive: Casperia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Casper
Genitive: Caspers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Casper
Genitive: Caspers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 72 people were named Casper (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[5]
11638
n.a.
0
n.a.
11638
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
5823 6704 2 9 5821 6695
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
1646 0 0
n.a.
1646
Greenland Greenland[7]
21 30
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
4 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
2321
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
2321
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Casper (m) Sources: [6][5][9][4]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Casper (m) Sources: [10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Casper (m)


References

  1. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. details see Name Statistic tables