Kasper

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kasper: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kasper: Recorded since 1973, its highest recorded position is #17, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
91times a registrar ranked it
53years from first to last
#17highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for
21names it appears alongside

What stands out in Kasper's record

Held a top-100 place for 28 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 51 years. Longest shared records

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2425
2000	#1889
2001	#1949
2002	#1411
2003	#2857
2004	#1347
2005	#1617
2006	#1168
2007	#820
2008	#728
2009	#944
2010	#668
2011	#701
2012	#592
2013	#560
2014	#527
2015	#557
2016	#435
2017	#439
2018	#440
2019	#463
2020	#406
2021	#326
2022	#365
2023	#561
2024	#529

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 51 of the 53 years from 1973 to 2025.

In 2025: #23 among boys in Norway, #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1973–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1973
First recorded at #549 among boys in Norway in 1973 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1973–2025
Highest recorded position: #17 among boys in Norway, in 2023 (recorded 1973–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #23 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Kasper appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 51 years beginning in 1973, and has registered 5,045 births with the name.

Kasper across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kasper's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#549 (1973)	#17 (2023)	#23 (2025)	51 of 53	5,045 (1973–2025)	232 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#2425 (1999)	#326 (2021)	#529 (2024)	26 of 26	1,396 (1999–2024)	140 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#701 (2009)	#500 (2012)	#676 (2025)	11 of 17	43 (2009–2025)	6 (2012)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#421 (2016)	#312 (2023)	#312 (2023)	2 of 8	8 (2016–2023)	5 (2023)

Kasper by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kasper in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	35	5 of 10	7
1980s	112	10 of 10	11
1990s	451	10 of 10	45
2000s	1,497	10 of 10	150
2010s	1,794	10 of 10	179
2020sbusiest	1,156	6 of 10	193

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 193 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 55, from 177 to 232.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Kasper appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1973 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #17 in Norway in 2023.

Kasper's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#529	73	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#561	67	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#365	116	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#326	140	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#406	100	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#463	87	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#440	94	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#439	96	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#435	96	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#557	68	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#527	72	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#560	64	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#592	59	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#701	45	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#668	47	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#944	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#728	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#820	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1168	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1411	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#421	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#23	227	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#32	187	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#17	232	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#32	177	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#26	191	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#39	142	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#31	182	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#26	197	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#32	182	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#35	188	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#35	187	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#37	178	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#44	166	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#51	161	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#47	174	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#45	179	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#33	210	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#44	169	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#50	158	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#51	154	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#56	137	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#47	156	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#52	154	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#52	146	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#60	119	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#83	94	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#77	100	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#92	76	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#143	49	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#126	55	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#190	32	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#158	41	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#210	29	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#253	22	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#239	24	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#233	23	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#274	18	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#271	18	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#364	12	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#295	17	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#443	9	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#387	11	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#502	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#581	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#471	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#503	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#498	7	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#486	7	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#473	7	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#433	9	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#549	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#547	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1973 and 2025, ranked in 51 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #17, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 28 years, 28 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 232 births, registered in Norway in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kaspar · #1551, 26y
Kasparas · #730, 12y
Kaspian · #715, 15y
Kasra · #1962, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Marilyn · #19, 49y
Stacey · #15, 52y
Filip · #13, 54y
Jude · #6, 56y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Daithi · #17, 37y
Jade · #17, 49y
Meabh · #17, 48y
Jesse · #18, 45y

Comparisons involving Kasper

Existing comparison pages where Kasper and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Kasper in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Erik vs Kasper
Over 51 shared years in Norway · Boys, Kasper rose about as far as Erik fell — from #29 and #549 in 1973 to #64 and #23 in 2025.
Erik · Kasper · 51 shared years, 1973–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Harald vs Kasper
Over 51 shared years in Norway · Boys, Kasper rose about as far as Harald fell — from #60 and #549 in 1973 to #109 and #23 in 2025.
Harald · Kasper · 51 shared years, 1973–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Kasper vs Joakim
Over 51 shared years in Norway · Boys, Kasper rose about as far as Joakim fell — from #549 and #168 in 1973 to #23 and #265 in 2025.
Kasper · Joakim · 51 shared years, 1973–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Kasper and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Matheo vs Kasper
In Norway · Boys, Matheo moved into the top 50 at #21 in 2012 as Kasper fell out of it to #51, having been #47 the year before.
Matheo · Kasper · 21 shared years, 2005–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2012 Norway ranking
Lars vs Kasper
In Norway · Boys, Kasper moved into the top 50 at #33 in 2009 as Lars fell out of it to #54, having been #40 the year before.
Lars · Kasper · 51 shared years, 1973–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2009 Norway ranking
Simen vs Kasper
In Norway · Boys, Kasper moved into the top 50 at #33 in 2009 as Simen fell out of it to #60, having been #38 the year before.
Simen · Kasper · 51 shared years, 1973–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2009 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Kasper measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Kasper at its highest position.

Kasper vs Jørgen
Over 51 shared years in Norway · Boys, Kasper rose about as far as Jørgen fell — from #549 and #66 in 1973 to #23 and #114 in 2025.
Kasper · Jørgen · 51 shared years, 1973–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Marius vs Kasper
Over 51 shared years in Norway · Boys, Kasper rose about as far as Marius fell — from #65 and #549 in 1973 to #133 and #23 in 2025.
Marius · Kasper · 51 shared years, 1973–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Michael vs Kasper
Over 51 shared years in Norway · Boys, Kasper rose about as far as Michael fell — from #108 and #549 in 1973 to #195 and #23 in 2025.
Michael · Kasper · 51 shared years, 1973–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Kasper was ranked #17 in Norway · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kasper and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kasper without appearing here.

Kasper moved ahead of

Ole Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2857 and #1771 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1347 and #3651.
Arne Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2857 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1617 and #3849.
Graeme Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2857 and #2189 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1347 and #3009.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1617 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1168 and #2538.

Moved ahead of Kasper

Cillian Compare
In 2014 they stood at #527 and #550 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #557 and #404.
Hudson Compare
In 2012 they stood at #500 and #548 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2013 that had become #605 and #534.
Oliver Compare
In 1996 they stood at #126 and #162 in Norway · Boys; by 1997 that had become #143 and #103.
Matheo Compare
In 2011 they stood at #47 and #51 in Norway · Boys; by 2012 that had become #51 and #21.

Moved the opposite way to Kasper

Anders Compare
Between 1973 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Kasper went from #549 to #23 while Anders went from #23 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1973 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Kasper went from #549 to #23 while Arild went from #44 to #489.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1973 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Kasper went from #549 to #23 while Bjørn went from #7 to #56.
Dag Compare
Between 1973 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Kasper went from #549 to #23 while Dag went from #39 to #426.

Moved the same way as Kasper

Adam Compare
Between 1973 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Kasper went from #549 to #23 and Adam from #120 to #29.
Adrian Compare
Between 1973 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Kasper went from #549 to #23 and Adrian from #485 to #70.
Alan Compare
Between 1973 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Kasper went from #549 to #23 and Alan from #458 to #274.
Alex Compare
Between 1973 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Kasper went from #549 to #23 and Alex from #533 to #259.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1973 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #17 in Norway in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kasper

Kasper at a glance

What stands out in Kasper's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kasper across 4 official records

Kasper by decade in Norway · Boys

Kasper appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Comparisons involving Kasper

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Kasper

Kasper and the names beside it

Kasper moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kasper

Moved the opposite way to Kasper

Moved the same way as Kasper

Kasper at a glance

What stands out in Kasper's record

Kasper across 4 official records

Kasper by decade in Norway · Boys

Kasper appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Comparisons involving Kasper

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Kasper

Kasper and the names beside it

Kasper moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kasper

Moved the opposite way to Kasper

Moved the same way as Kasper