Gasper
Gasper is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 926th, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191748 births
- Best rank
- #926in 1917
- Since 1907
- 1,469people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,469 boys have been named Gasper in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gasper | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 11 | |
| 1910s | 247 | |
| 1920s | 402 | |
| 1930s | 256 | |
| 1940s | 185 | |
| 1950s | 116 | |
| 1960s | 101 | |
| 1970s | 53 | |
| 1980s | 30 | |
| 1990s | 34 | |
| 2000s | 23 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Gasper was the 926th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Gasper
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Merwinpeak 1928
- Beaufordpeak 1934
- Haskelpeak 1924
- Natalepeak 1915
- Wilburtpeak 1920
- Nunziopeak 1923
- Burnellpeak 1920
- Larencepeak 1927
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.