Jasper

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Low German and Frisian variant form of Jaspar [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Jaspar

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Jasperinpoika Finland
Jaspersen Denmark Norway
Jaspersson Iceland Sweden
Jaspersøn Norway

Female

Jasperintytär Finland
Jaspersdatter Denmark Norway
Jaspersdotter Sweden
Jaspersdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jasper
Genitive: Jaspers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jasper
Genitive: Jasperin
Partitive: Jasperia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Jasper
Accusative: Jasper
Dative: Jasper
Genitive: Jaspers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jasper
Genitive: Jaspers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jasper
Genitive: Jaspers

Name Day

Finland Finland

20 October

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 13 people were named Jasper (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) [7]

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&
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
3391
n.a.
6
n.a.
3385
Sweden Sweden[9]
294 378 2 3 292 375
Denmark Denmark[10]
407
n.a.
1
n.a.
406
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
173
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
173
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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 Jasper (m) Sources: [9][10][12][8]


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/