Gaspar is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Casper, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Gaspar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,716 in 1930.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,716 in 1930; #3,053 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gaspar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,053 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1930, at #1,716.
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Gaspar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,716 in 1930 · most boys in one year: 50 (2024).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Gaspar, making it the 3,053rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 407 places from #2,646 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 50 boys named Gaspar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,716, reached in 1930. The most boys given the name in a single year was 50, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,725 in 2015 and #3,142 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gaspar in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 2,211 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 342 babies named Gaspar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 396 US boys were named Gaspar; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Casper (6,229 babies since 1880), Kasper (1,409 babies since 1880) and Kacper (1,102 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Gaspar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 40 | #3,053 |
| 2024 | — | — | 50 | #2,646 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,818 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,296 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,934 |
| 2020 | — | — | 45 | #2,739 |
| 2019 | — | — | 37 | #3,159 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,015 |
| 2017 | — | — | 32 | #3,472 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,618 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,725 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,173 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,788 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,936 |
| 2011 | — | — | 23 | #4,265 |
| 2010 | — | — | 27 | #3,848 |
| 2009 | — | — | 29 | #3,666 |
| 2008 | — | — | 42 | #2,849 |
| 2007 | — | — | 37 | #3,108 |
| 2006 | — | — | 36 | #3,045 |
| 2005 | — | — | 41 | #2,678 |
| 2004 | — | — | 39 | #2,714 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,950 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,711 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,261 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,641 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,484 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,247 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,852 |
| 1996 | — | — | 39 | #2,159 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,601 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,410 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,604 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,484 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,702 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,456 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,933 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,586 |
| 1987 | — | — | 23 | #2,419 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,047 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,752 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,537 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,708 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,175 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,441 |
| 1980 | — | — | 20 | #2,469 |
| 1979 | — | — | 21 | #2,332 |
| 1978 | — | — | 16 | #2,714 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,088 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,584 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,313 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,309 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,159 |
| 1972 | — | — | 18 | #2,190 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,232 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #2,962 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,248 |
| 1968 | — | — | 13 | #2,370 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,081 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,686 |
| 1965 | — | — | 17 | #1,950 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,586 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,924 |
| 1962 | — | — | 20 | #1,829 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,972 |
| 1960 | — | — | 20 | #1,831 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,578 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,704 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,412 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,349 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,817 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,439 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,419 |
| 1951 | — | — | 14 | #2,086 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,142 |
| 1949 | — | — | 13 | #2,158 |
| 1948 | — | — | 13 | #2,151 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,288 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,462 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,459 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,364 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,458 |
| 1942 | — | — | 11 | #2,314 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,701 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #2,967 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,515 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,300 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,383 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,301 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,458 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,863 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,970 |
| 1931 | — | — | 16 | #1,878 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,716 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,662 |
| 1928 | — | — | 20 | #1,728 |
| 1927 | — | — | 20 | #1,770 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,341 |
| 1925 | — | — | 17 | #1,960 |
| 1924 | — | — | 21 | #1,745 |
| 1923 | — | — | 19 | #1,832 |
| 1922 | — | — | 15 | #2,181 |
| 1921 | — | — | 21 | #1,733 |
| 1920 | — | — | 13 | #2,374 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,755 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,781 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,479 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,191 |
| 1915 | — | — | 14 | #2,007 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,452 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,995 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,835 |
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).