Jesper
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jesper is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl.
- DKDenmark1 in 177◐
- SESweden1 in 475
- NONorway1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈68K ●
- Sources
- 218 ●
- 1 in 177 ◐
across 9 countries
47K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., dänische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #15 | 33,139 | 19K rec. | 1 in 177 | 33K | Jesper | 218 |
| SE Sweden | #87 | 21,476 | 11K rec. | 1 in 475 | 21K | Jesper | 123 |
| NL Netherlands | #608 | 6,018 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 2.9K | 6K | Jesper | 70 |
| NO Norway | #302 | 3,723△ | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 14K | Jesper | 75 |
| FI Finland | #805 | 2,630△ | 360 rec. | 1 in 2.1K | 3K | Jesper | 31 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,344 | 686 rec. | — | — | Jesper | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,284 | 925 rec. | — | — | Jesper | 72 |
| TN Tunisia | #292 | 1,108 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Jesper | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 733 | 664 rec. | — | 1 | Jesper | 51 |
| FR France | — | 662 | 514 rec. | — | — | Jesper | 98 |
| US United States | — | 479 | 5.2K rec. | 1 in 694K | 479 | Jesper | 175 |
| BJ Benin | #39 | 224 | 230 rec. | — | — | Jesper | 7 |
Roughly 33K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 177). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Danish204K71%
- English14K5%
- Norwegian Bokmål14K5%
- Finnish12K4%
- Western Frisian11K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 203,962 | 71% |
| English | 13,911 | 5% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 13,908 | 5% |
| Finnish | 12,332 | 4% |
| Western Frisian | 11,204 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jesper is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Danish form of JASPER , still a very popular name in Denmark.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 4 |
| 1967 | 14 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 9 |
| 1971 | 19 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 17 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 19 |
| 1985 | 15 |
| 1986 | 27 |
| 1987 | 32 |
| 1988 | 26 |
| 1989 | 33 |
| 1990 | 26 |
| 1991 | 24 |
| 1992 | 32 |
| 1993 | 36 |
| 1994 | 42 |
| 1995 | 46 |
| 1996 | 54 |
| 1997 | 73 |
| 1998 | 116 |
| 1999 | 113 |
| 2000 | 93 |
| 2001 | 85 |
| 2002 | 127 |
| 2003 | 128 |
| 2004 | 147 |
| 2005 | 141 |
| 2006 | 131 |
| 2007 | 143 |
| 2008 | 116 |
| 2009 | 120 |
| 2010 | 116 |
| 2011 | 99 |
| 2012 | 92 |
| 2013 | 85 |
| 2014 | 96 |
| 2015 | 116 |
| 2016 | 113 |
| 2017 | 84 |
| 2018 | 100 |
| 2019 | 104 |
| 2020 | 94 |
| 2021 | 84 |
| 2022 | 111 |
| 2023 | 98 |
| 2024 | 93 |
| 2025 | 121 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 63 years between 1963–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jesper Allan Christensenb. 1948DKDanish actor
- Jesper Skibbyb. 1964DKDanish cyclist, born 1964
- Jesper Kydb. 1972DKDanish composer and sound designer
- Jesper Blomqvistb. 1974SESwedish association football player
- Jesper Grønkjærb. 1977GLDanish footballer
- Jesper Christiansenb. 1978DKDanish footballer
- Jesper Salénb. 1978SESwedish actor
- Jesper Karlströmb. 1995SESwedish footballer (born 1995)
- Jesper Karlssonb. 1998SESwedish association football player (born 1998)
- Jesper Lindstrømb. 2000DKDanish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 48 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 322 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jesper?
- We estimate roughly 68 thousand people bear Jesper (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jesper have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 33 thousand people bear Jesper in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jesper.
- Where is Jesper most common?
- Jesper is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 177 people carrying it.
- How common is Jesper compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jesper is the 15th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
- Is Jesper a male or female name?
- Jesper is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Jesper mean?
- Recorded meaning: in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jesper” — the 15th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.