Jesper
- #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 26 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 245since 1979
Jesper over time
Rank among boys' names. Jesper has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | #5,067 | 19 |
| 2023 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
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| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
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| 2003 | #9,581 | 6 |
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| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
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| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jesper! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jesper is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,471 · 1 in 35,095
Best ever in a state: #1,783 in New York, 2023.
Show every state
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| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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See more about Jesper
- 928 spots since 2024 (#5,067 → #4,139)
- 4,600 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #4,139)
- 2,537 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #4,139)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2023 at #4,112 (26 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 65,791 boys born in 2023 were named Jesper (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 68,323 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.3% of all boys named Jesper (111) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 50 | #4,890 (2001) | #8,836 |
| 2010s | 79 | #6,676 (2015) | #9,207 |
| 2020s | 111 | #4,112 (2023) | #5,576 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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