Casper
Casper is a rarer spelling of Kacper, Greek at root and carrying the sense "treasurer". Most Poles have never met one: fewer than 600 men hold it, and it stays exclusively male.
Casper Pronunciation
Casper is pronounced TSAHS-per (/ˈt͡saspɛr/).
What Casper means
Where Casper comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Casper reached Polish ears through Greek, and in Poland it settled into the form Kacper. The short meaning most people attach to it is treasurer, skarbnik in Polish, a sense that grew up around the name rather than sitting at its root.
The treasurer reading owes almost everything to one figure: Caspar, counted among the three Magi who brought their gifts to Bethlehem. In Poland the name day falls on the sixth of January, the feast of the Trzej Królowie, when children still chalk K+M+B above the doorway. That is why a Kacper on a class register often shares his imieniny with a whole calendar of kings.
The Scandinavian world took to the name early and kept it common. There Casper stayed the everyday spelling while Poland leaned toward Kacper, the same name in a different coat.
Short. Two forms, one origin. Whether spelled with a C or a K, the name still points back to Greek and to that old office of the man who guarded the treasure.
How many people are named Casper
1 in 35936 men in Poland is named Casper. 594 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1223 among male names.
Casper's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1216 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.
Casper as a middle name
Casper is a first name for 594 men in Poland and a middle name for another 88, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 768th, between Bernardyn (88) and Eugen (88).
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#768 Casper88
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