Meaning not yet researched.
Casper: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 255 in 2025. Its best rank was #332 in 1889.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #332 in 1889; #924 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Casper in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#924 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1889, at #332.
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Casper: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 255 boys in 2025. Peak: #332 in 1889 · most boys in one year: 274 (2024).
In 2025, 255 US boys were named Casper, making it the 924th most common boys’ name of the year, down 43 places from #881 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 274 boys named Casper in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #332, reached in 1889. The most boys given the name in a single year was 274, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,755 in 2015 and #1,621 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Casper in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 15 babies with the name. In all, 6,229 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,277 babies named Casper.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,756 US boys were named Casper; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 274. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,698 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Casper ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #443 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kasper (1,409 babies since 1880) and Kacper (1,102 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gaspar, Gaspare and Caspar are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jasper.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gaspar (2,211), Gaspare (445), Caspar (401), Kaspar (169), Gaspard (104).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 8 | #443 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #658 | — |
| Indiana | 9 | #676 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #679 | — |
| New York | 21 | #696 | #1,079 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #701 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #712 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #777 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #811 | — |
| California | 30 | #811 | #1,129 |
| Illinois | 10 | #815 | #1,091 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #858 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #862 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #916 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #922 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #954 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,024 | #773 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,033 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,041 | #2,446 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 255 | #924 |
| 2024 | — | — | 274 | #881 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,654 | 218 | #1,009 |
| 2022 | — | — | 181 | #1,146 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,732 | 181 | #1,125 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,587 | 153 | #1,226 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,165 | 159 | #1,204 |
| 2018 | — | — | 129 | #1,364 |
| 2017 | — | — | 123 | #1,414 |
| 2016 | — | — | 83 | #1,816 |
| 2015 | — | — | 87 | #1,755 |
| 2014 | — | — | 86 | #1,753 |
| 2013 | — | — | 92 | #1,648 |
| 2012 | — | — | 71 | #1,985 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,288 |
| 2010 | — | — | 52 | #2,409 |
| 2009 | — | — | 38 | #3,058 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,550 |
| 2007 | — | — | 51 | #2,477 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,586 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,573 |
| 2004 | — | — | 35 | #2,899 |
| 2003 | — | — | 49 | #2,210 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,432 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,814 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,387 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,951 |
| 1998 | — | — | 37 | #2,355 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,461 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,760 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,886 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,152 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,046 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,925 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,232 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #2,970 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,836 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,377 |
| 1987 | — | — | 16 | #3,089 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,288 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,848 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,840 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,263 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,001 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,798 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,118 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,390 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,810 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,657 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,061 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,923 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,566 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,754 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,190 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #2,999 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,564 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,568 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,596 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,282 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,651 |
| 1965 | — | — | 17 | #1,925 |
| 1964 | — | — | 23 | #1,660 |
| 1963 | — | — | 17 | #1,971 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,080 |
| 1961 | — | — | 24 | #1,645 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,557 |
| 1959 | — | — | 26 | #1,563 |
| 1958 | — | — | 23 | #1,646 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,677 |
| 1956 | — | — | 29 | #1,452 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,058 |
| 1954 | — | — | 35 | #1,272 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,719 |
| 1952 | — | — | 32 | #1,325 |
| 1951 | — | — | 29 | #1,382 |
| 1950 | — | — | 21 | #1,621 |
| 1949 | — | — | 24 | #1,512 |
| 1948 | — | — | 36 | #1,199 |
| 1947 | — | — | 25 | #1,488 |
| 1946 | — | — | 22 | #1,517 |
| 1945 | — | — | 26 | #1,302 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,532 |
| 1943 | — | — | 34 | #1,173 |
| 1942 | — | — | 29 | #1,299 |
| 1941 | — | — | 35 | #1,113 |
| 1940 | — | — | 30 | #1,230 |
| 1939 | — | — | 40 | #1,007 |
| 1938 | — | — | 35 | #1,096 |
| 1937 | — | — | 39 | #1,021 |
| 1936 | — | — | 36 | #1,072 |
| 1935 | — | — | 39 | #1,022 |
| 1934 | — | — | 30 | #1,218 |
| 1933 | — | — | 42 | #982 |
| 1932 | — | — | 52 | #891 |
| 1931 | — | — | 49 | #923 |
| 1930 | — | — | 58 | #865 |
| 1929 | — | — | 66 | #794 |
| 1928 | — | — | 54 | #916 |
| 1927 | — | — | 76 | #747 |
| 1926 | — | — | 54 | #916 |
| 1925 | — | — | 80 | #724 |
| 1924 | — | — | 88 | #696 |
| 1923 | — | — | 93 | #666 |
| 1922 | — | — | 86 | #705 |
| 1921 | — | — | 80 | #737 |
| 1920 | — | — | 85 | #700 |
| 1919 | — | — | 113 | #562 |
| 1918 | — | — | 86 | #668 |
| 1917 | — | — | 107 | #571 |
| 1916 | — | — | 80 | #657 |
| 1915 | — | — | 108 | #535 |
| 1914 | — | — | 72 | #592 |
| 1913 | — | — | 57 | #580 |
| 1912 | — | — | 55 | #540 |
| 1911 | — | — | 24 | #626 |
| 1910 | — | — | 14 | #825 |
| 1909 | — | — | 18 | #638 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #691 |
| 1907 | — | — | 21 | #514 |
| 1906 | — | — | 12 | #718 |
| 1905 | — | — | 16 | #596 |
| 1904 | — | — | 14 | #618 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #922 |
| 1902 | — | — | 16 | #538 |
| 1901 | — | — | 11 | #643 |
| 1900 | — | — | 14 | #684 |
| 1899 | — | — | 16 | #485 |
| 1898 | — | — | 20 | #454 |
| 1897 | — | — | 17 | #480 |
| 1896 | — | — | 23 | #407 |
| 1895 | — | — | 14 | #560 |
| 1894 | — | — | 20 | #422 |
| 1893 | — | — | 16 | #463 |
| 1892 | — | — | 20 | #425 |
| 1891 | — | — | 20 | #390 |
| 1890 | — | — | 14 | #515 |
| 1889 | — | — | 28 | #332 |
| 1888 | — | — | 25 | #370 |
| 1887 | — | — | 11 | #552 |
| 1886 | — | — | 22 | #370 |
| 1885 | — | — | 22 | #381 |
| 1884 | — | — | 14 | #506 |
| 1883 | — | — | 16 | #450 |
| 1882 | — | — | 25 | #357 |
| 1881 | — | — | 15 | #445 |
| 1880 | — | — | 15 | #466 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).