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Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Danish variant form of Jasper (see Jaspar) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2) "Latinised" form of Esbjörn (see Ǣsbiǫrn) [1]
Related Names
Male
Jesperinpoika
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Jespersen
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Jesperson
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Jesperssen
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Jespersson
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Jesperssøn
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Jespersøn
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Female
Jesperdatter
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Jesperintytär
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Jespersdatter
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Jespersdotter
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Jespersdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Jesper
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Genitive: |
Jespers
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Jesper
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Genitive: |
Jesperin
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Partitive: |
Jesperiä
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Jesper
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Accusative: |
Jesper
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Dative: |
Jesper
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Genitive: |
Jespers
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Jesper
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Genitive: |
Jespers
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Jesper
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Genitive: |
Jespers
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Name Days
Finland
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20 October
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Norway
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9 May
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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20 October
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Sweden
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26 July
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Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand (5 August 1585 - 19 April 1652), bishop of Sjælland
- Jesper Swedberg (28 August 1653 – 26 July 1735), bishop of Skara, Sweden
- Jesper Langberg (born 20 October 1940), Danish film actor
- Jesper Klein (13 November 1944 – 22 August 2011), Danish actor
- Lars Jesper Blomqvist (born 5 February 1974), Swedish footballer
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[9] |
|
33680 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
33680 |
n.a. |
Sweden[10] |
|
17461 |
21242 |
6 |
9 |
17455 |
21233 |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
2724 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
2724 |
Greenland[12] |
|
72 |
90 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[13] |
|
7 |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
3234 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
3234 |
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
Sources: [10][9][14][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables