girls:
21 births since 2019
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1880
#1575 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.7k births since 1880
#3605 (53rd percentile)
The name Casper is the #3,605 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,695 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 53.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,575 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 5,674 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 2019.
Casper has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2019 for girls).
The name Casper has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Casper reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 23.1% percentile (ranked #701) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 235 births per million (ranked 11.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1995, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Casper ranks #701 for boys (23.1% percentile) with 118 births per million, which is 50.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Casper reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #944) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Casper ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 87.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Casper".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Casper. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Casper is pronounced as KA-sper, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-sper, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K AE1 S P ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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