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Jesper

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Danish

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Etymology

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Medieval Danish variant of Kasper (same as Caspar), with possible confusion with Esbern, Espen, from Old Norse Ásbjǫrn.

Proper noun

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Jesper

  1. a male given name
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References

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  • [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

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Etymology

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From Danish Jesper.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjesper/, [ˈje̞s̠pe̞r]
  • Rhymes: -esper
  • Hyphenation(key): Jes‧per

Proper noun

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Jesper

  1. a male given name

Declension

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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.
Possessive forms of Jesper (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

Statistics

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  • Jesper is the 276th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,683 male individuals (and as a middle name to 838 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Norwegian

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Etymology

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From Danish Jesper.

Proper noun

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Jesper

  1. a male given name

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Danish.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

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Jesper c (genitive Jespers)

  1. a male given name