Jesper is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin meaning “Treasurer.” In 2024 it was given to 19 boys in the United States.
Jesper at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Scandinavian · Persian
Meaning
“Treasurer”
About the name Jesper
Jesper belongs to the Scandinavian and Persian tradition. Its meaning — “Treasurer” — is the sense carried by its Scandinavian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Jesper first appears in Social Security records in 1979. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #4160 in 2023, and in 2024 19 babies received the name — 220 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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