Jesper
Appearance
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval Danish variant of Kasper (same as Caspar), with possible confusion with Esbern, Espen, from Old Norse Ásbjǫrn.
Proper noun
[edit]Jesper
- a male given name
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 37 267 males with the given name Jesper have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈjesper/, [ˈje̞s̠pe̞r]
- Rhymes: -esper
- Syllabification(key): Jes‧per
- Hyphenation(key): Jes‧per
Proper noun
[edit]Jesper
- a male given name
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of Jesper (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Jesper | Jesperit | |
| genitive | Jesperin | Jesperien Jespereiden Jespereitten | |
| partitive | Jesperiä | Jespereitä Jesperejä | |
| illative | Jesperiin | Jespereihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Jesper | Jesperit | |
| accusative | nom. | Jesper | Jesperit |
| gen. | Jesperin | ||
| genitive | Jesperin | Jesperien Jespereiden Jespereitten | |
| partitive | Jesperiä | Jespereitä Jesperejä | |
| inessive | Jesperissä | Jespereissä | |
| elative | Jesperistä | Jespereistä | |
| illative | Jesperiin | Jespereihin | |
| adessive | Jesperillä | Jespereillä | |
| ablative | Jesperiltä | Jespereiltä | |
| allative | Jesperille | Jespereille | |
| essive | Jesperinä | Jespereinä | |
| translative | Jesperiksi | Jespereiksi | |
| abessive | Jesperittä | Jespereittä | |
| instructive | — | Jesperein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Statistics
[edit]- Jesper is the 271st most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,755 male individuals (and as a middle name to 865 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
[edit]Norwegian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jesper
- a male given name
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Danish.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Jesper c (genitive Jespers)
- a male given name
Categories:
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish male given names
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/esper
- Rhymes:Finnish/esper/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish paperi-type nominals
- Norwegian terms derived from Danish
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian male given names
- Swedish terms derived from Danish
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish male given names