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Kasper
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Usage
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Swedish
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Kaspar [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Kaspar
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Kasperinpoika |
|
| Kaspersen |
|
| Kasperson |
|
| Kasperssen |
|
| Kaspersson |
|
| Kasperssøn |
|
| Kaspersøn |
|
Female
| Kasperdatter |
|
| Kasperintytär |
|
| Kaspersdatter |
|
| Kaspersdotter |
|
| Kaspersdóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kasper |
| Genitive: | Kaspers |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kasper |
| Genitive: | Kasperin |
| Partitive: | Kasperia |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kasper |
| Accusative: | Kasper |
| Dative: | Kasper |
| Genitive: | Kaspers |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kasper |
| Genitive: | Kaspers |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kasper |
| Genitive: | Kaspers |
Name Days
|
|
20 October |
|
|
9 May |
|
|
20 October |
|
|
6 January |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Denmark:
- Sweden:
- Härjedalen (19th century) see map [7]
- Västergötland (19th century) see map [7]
- Halland (19th century) see map [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& | |
| Denmark[8] |
  |
19591 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
19590 | n.a. |
| Sweden[9] |
 |
2583 | 3143 | 5 | 6 | 2578 | 3137 |
| Norway[10] |
 |
3868 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
3868 | n.a. |
| Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
6916 | n.a. |
7 | n.a. |
6909 |
| Greenland[12] |
 |
79 | 221 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Iceland[13] |
 |
13 | 15 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [14]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Kasper (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables