Kasper
From Hebrew, the name means "treasurer". It sits just inside Poland's top 700 today, yet births keep sliding year after year: most Poles have never met a Kasper, and the newest ones are all boys.
Kasper Pronunciation
Kasper is pronounced KAHS-per (/ˈkaspɛr/).
What Kasper means
Where Kasper comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Kasper reaches back to a Hebrew word for treasurer, the same sense kept in its Polish gloss, skarbnik. The root points to someone put in charge of the treasury, a keeper of what other people counted as valuable. He was no rich man himself, only the trusted official standing beside the strongbox.
In Poland the name belongs above all to one of the Three Kings, the magus who brings his gift to Bethlehem. On the sixth of January children still chalk K, M, B above the door. That K stands for Kacper, the spelling with a c that now dominates Polish records, while Kasper keeps the older look with its s.
Kacper and Kasper tell one story. Kaspian is a longer variant of the same name, and it turns up far less often. All of them lead back to that first idea of the treasurer, the one who guards the coins and keeps the count.
Open a class register and you may find two or three boys named Kacper in a single row. The name still means treasurer.
When Kasper celebrates name day
Kasper appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 6 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Kasper
1 in 9594 men in Poland is named Kasper. 2,225 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #678 among male names.
Kasper's popularity over time
10 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #699 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #678 name among living men, even as it slips to #699 among newborns.
Where Kasper is most popular
Kasper is most popular in Pomeranian, 137% above the national average (11 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+122%) and Greater Poland (+92%). It is least common in Łódź and Lublin, 50% and 38% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian11 boys born+137%
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Lower Silesian11 boys born+122%
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Greater Poland13 boys born+92%
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Lesser Poland9 boys born+26%
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Masovian10 boys born−10%
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Warmian-Masurian2 boys born−11%
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Silesian6 boys born−16%
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West Pomeranian2 boys born−25%
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Lublin2 boys born−38%
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Łódź2 boys born−50%
Kasper as a middle name
Kasper is a first name for 2,225 men in Poland and a middle name for another 996, a 69/31 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 228th, between Christian (1,028) and Kosma (987).
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#226 Bonifacy1,043
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#227 Christian1,028
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#228 Kasper996
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#229 Kosma987
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#230 Andreas971