Jesper

maleStatistical record

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

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

Jesper: Recorded every year since 1963, it reached #53 in 2004, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
84times a registrar ranked it
63years from first to last
#53highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Jesper's record

Ranked every year since 1963, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 29 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1998–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2901
2000	#1703
2001	#3134
2002	#2636
2003	#2470
2005	#2754
2006	#3385
2007	#2211
2009	#2837
2010	#3332
2012	#3987
2014	#2459
2015	#3908
2016	#3079
2018	#3959
2019	#3013
2020	#4608
2021	#3990
2022	#3449
2023	#2813
2024	#3688

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1963 to 2025.

In 2024: #73 among boys in Norway, #3688 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1963–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1963
First recorded at #480 among boys in Norway in 1963 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1963–2025
Highest recorded position: #53 among boys in Norway, in 2004 (recorded 1963–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #55 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Jesper appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 63 years beginning in 1963, and has registered 3,749 births with the name.

Jesper across 2 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.

Jesper'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	#480 (1963)	#53 (2004)	#55 (2025)	63 of 63	3,749 (1963–2025)	147 (2004)
England and Wales · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#1703 (2000)	#3688 (2024)	21 of 27	106 (1998–2024)	8 (2007)

Jesper 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 Jesper in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	51	7 of 10	7
1970s	114	10 of 10	11
1980s	185	10 of 10	19
1990s	562	10 of 10	56
2000sbusiest	1,231	10 of 10	123
2010s	1,005	10 of 10	101
2020s	601	6 of 10	100

Across Norway · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 123 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1997 and 1998, when recorded births rose by 43, from 73 to 116.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Jesper 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 2 regions, from 1963 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #53 in Norway in 2005.

Jesper'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	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#55	121	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#73	93	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#73	98	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#56	111	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#76	84	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#65	94	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#71	104	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#74	100	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#91	84	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#72	113	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#76	116	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#85	96	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#92	85	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#88	92	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#88	99	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#80	116	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#79	120	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#80	116	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#59	143	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#64	131	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#53	141	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#53	147	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#61	128	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#59	127	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#81	85	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#85	93	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#68	113	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#64	116	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#99	73	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#129	54	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#150	46	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#155	42	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#174	36	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#199	32	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#236	24	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#220	26	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#200	33	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#220	26	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#190	32	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#224	27	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#313	15	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#270	19	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#444	9	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#499	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#469	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#433	9	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#580	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#485	7	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#310	14	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#273	17	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#375	11	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#304	15	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#442	8	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#417	9	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#252	19	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#405	9	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#415	8	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#390	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#275	14	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#532	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#477	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#455	6	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#480	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1963 and 2025, ranked in 63 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #53, first reached in 2004.

It held a top-100 place in 29 years, 29 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 147 births, registered in Norway in 2004.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 35 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.

Jesiah · #2007, 17y
Jeslyn · #3031, 11y
Jess · #355, 31y
Jessa · #734, 9y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Inge · #52, 67y
Colette · #47, 61y
Noreen · #60, 61y
Benedicte · #63, 67y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Jacinta · #53, 57y
Aron · #52, 53y
Cliodhna · #52, 56y
Lorna · #54, 61y

Jesper was ranked #53 in Norway · Boys in 2004. 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.

Jesper 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 Jesper without appearing here.

Jesper moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3990 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #4991.
Maddison Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3385 and #3385 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #2211 and #4333.
Morten Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3385 and #3385 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #2211 and #4333.

Moved ahead of Jesper

Arlo Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1703 and #2142 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1949.
Kasper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2754 and #1617.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3013 and #2104.
Leif Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3385 and #4052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #2211 and #1578.

Moved the opposite way to Jesper

Anders Compare
Between 1963 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jesper went from #480 to #55 while Anders went from #51 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1963 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jesper went from #480 to #55 while Arild went from #27 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1963 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jesper went from #480 to #55 while Arne went from #17 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1963 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jesper went from #480 to #55 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Jesper

Adam Compare
Between 1963 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jesper went from #480 to #55 and Adam from #237 to #29.
Aksel Compare
Between 1963 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jesper went from #480 to #55 and Aksel from #336 to #25.
Alexander Compare
Between 1963 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jesper went from #480 to #55 and Alexander from #355 to #81.
Alfred Compare
Between 1963 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jesper went from #480 to #55 and Alfred from #276 to #26.

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 2 regions, from 1963 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #53 in Norway in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jesper

Jesper at a glance

What stands out in Jesper's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jesper across 2 official records

Jesper by decade in Norway · Boys

Jesper appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Jesper at a glance

What stands out in Jesper's record

Jesper across 2 official records

Jesper by decade in Norway · Boys

Jesper appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Jesper

Jesper and the names beside it

Jesper moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Jesper

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