Primarily a boy's name · 98% boys
Origin: EnglishJasper is a masculine given name of Persian origin, meaning "treasurer". The etymology of the given name Jasper is unrelated to that of the gemstone jasper. Jasper may refer to:
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Jasper yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
One entry in Jasper's namesake list is a cartoon cat. Tom, of Tom and Jerry, is formally Thomas Jasper Cat, and the enrichment file records him with an occupation of mouser and no birth year — the second fictional character to turn up in these lists, after Spider-Man's J. Jonah Jameson. The real bearers are the painter Jasper Johns, born 1930, and Jasper Tudor, born 1431, uncle to Henry VII. The chart is straightforward: up 57% across the decade, currently 2,750 births at rank 133, marginally off its 2023 peak. Recorded from 1880 but accumulating only 60,802 births in total, Jasper follows the same pattern as Graham and Milo — long presence, negligible volume until the current revival of stone and mineral names.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 98 | #139 |
| 1881 | 83 | #150 |
| 1882 | 88 | #158 |
| 1883 | 74 | #165 |
| 1884 | 83 | #169 |
| 1885 | 87 | #156 |
| 1886 | 88 | #157 |
| 1887 | 65 | #190 |
| 1888 | 78 | #192 |
| 1889 | 76 | #178 |
| 1890 | 95 | #149 |
| 1891 | 58 | #206 |
| 1892 | 70 | #209 |
| 1893 | 72 | #199 |
| 1894 | 61 | #217 |
| 1895 | 71 | #203 |
| 1896 | 90 | #180 |
| 1897 | 83 | #184 |
| 1898 | 60 | #227 |
| 1899 | 65 | #203 |
| 1900 | 97 | #197 |
| 1901 | 58 | #229 |
| 1902 | 67 | #219 |
| 1903 | 57 | #245 |
| 1904 | 52 | #267 |
| 1905 | 80 | #213 |
| 1906 | 56 | #264 |
| 1907 | 87 | #219 |
| 1908 | 78 | #239 |
| 1909 | 83 | #241 |
| 1910 | 82 | #272 |
| 1911 | 114 | #239 |
| 1912 | 178 | #262 |
| 1913 | 248 | #238 |
| 1914 | 306 | #246 |
| 1915 | 332 | #265 |
| 1916 | 358 | #267 |
| 1917 | 377 | #262 |
| 1918 | 391 | #269 |
| 1919 | 423 | #260 |
| 1920 | 388 | #284 |
| 1921 | 390 | #284 |
| 1922 | 423 | #275 |
| 1923 | 403 | #282 |
| 1924 | 396 | #291 |
| 1925 | 387 | #292 |
| 1926 | 389 | #290 |
| 1927 | 346 | #309 |
| 1928 | 336 | #302 |
| 1929 | 306 | #316 |
| 1930 | 285 | #328 |
| 1931 | 252 | #345 |
| 1932 | 263 | #340 |
| 1933 | 231 | #356 |
| 1934 | 246 | #351 |
| 1935 | 212 | #371 |
| 1936 | 236 | #352 |
| 1937 | 219 | #370 |
| 1938 | 200 | #402 |
| 1939 | 222 | #382 |
| 1940 | 221 | #383 |
| 1941 | 208 | #403 |
| 1942 | 241 | #390 |
| 1943 | 252 | #386 |
| 1944 | 184 | #448 |
| 1945 | 190 | #432 |
| 1946 | 201 | #448 |
| 1947 | 203 | #472 |
| 1948 | 225 | #444 |
| 1949 | 194 | #473 |
| 1950 | 208 | #461 |
| 1951 | 211 | #468 |
| 1952 | 206 | #491 |
| 1953 | 187 | #516 |
| 1954 | 209 | #501 |
| 1955 | 187 | #543 |
| 1956 | 181 | #565 |
| 1957 | 169 | #590 |
| 1958 | 186 | #567 |
| 1959 | 174 | #592 |
| 1960 | 179 | #583 |
| 1961 | 153 | #635 |
| 1962 | 160 | #610 |
| 1963 | 142 | #656 |
| 1964 | 140 | #656 |
| 1965 | 120 | #680 |
| 1966 | 107 | #720 |
| 1967 | 124 | #671 |
| 1968 | 94 | #766 |
| 1969 | 117 | #722 |
| 1970 | 99 | #814 |
| 1971 | 108 | #783 |
| 1972 | 106 | #777 |
| 1973 | 102 | #787 |
| 1974 | 101 | #799 |
| 1975 | 119 | #761 |
| 1976 | 118 | #763 |
| 1977 | 133 | #742 |
| 1978 | 144 | #699 |
| 1979 | 152 | #694 |
| 1980 | 163 | #680 |
| 1981 | 194 | #612 |
| 1982 | 154 | #702 |
| 1983 | 174 | #650 |
| 1984 | 144 | #725 |
| 1985 | 177 | #664 |
| 1986 | 172 | #694 |
| 1987 | 204 | #641 |
| 1988 | 247 | #594 |
| 1989 | 231 | #657 |
| 1990 | 269 | #615 |
| 1991 | 251 | #646 |
| 1992 | 243 | #666 |
| 1993 | 225 | #688 |
| 1994 | 207 | #730 |
| 1995 | 238 | #687 |
| 1996 | 252 | #661 |
| 1997 | 274 | #628 |
| 1998 | 301 | #611 |
| 1999 | 281 | #634 |
| 2000 | 334 | #592 |
| 2001 | 390 | #549 |
| 2002 | 479 | #483 |
| 2003 | 469 | #513 |
| 2004 | 392 | #576 |
| 2005 | 451 | #538 |
| 2006 | 442 | #569 |
| 2007 | 585 | #466 |
| 2008 | 627 | #449 |
| 2009 | 945 | #337 |
| 2010 | 1,184 | #285 |
| 2011 | 1,253 | #281 |
| 2012 | 1,357 | #263 |
| 2013 | 1,466 | #247 |
| 2014 | 1,755 | #218 |
| 2015 | 1,866 | #214 |
| 2016 | 1,913 | #209 |
| 2017 | 2,116 | #183 |
| 2018 | 2,505 | #155 |
| 2019 | 2,791 | #136 |
| 2020 | 2,639 | #138 |
| 2021 | 2,876 | #128 |
| 2022 | 2,916 | #128 |
| 2023 | 2,942 | #122 |
| 2024 | 2,750 | #133 |
