Casper

English <dab!> Etymology Alternative spelling of en Caspar. The slur denoting a white person is an allusion to Casper the Friendly Ghost. The skateboarding term is named after Bobby Boyden, a professional skateboarder who was given the nickname "Casper" as a child because of his pale skin (again in allusion to the friendly ghost). Pronunciation en non-rhotic en /ˈkæspə/ [ˈkʰæspə] RP,AU en En-au-Casper.ogg Australia en rhotic en /ˈkæspɚ/ [ˈkʰæspɚ] ~ [ˈkʰæspɹ̩] GA en æspə(ɹ) en Cas per en Caspar Proper noun ~ en male Old Persian occasional Caspar. en city/county seat co/Natrona County s/Wyoming c/USA. en mountain s/Wyoming. Derived terms en Casperson Noun en offensive slang ethnic slur A white person. en 1998 Jim Goad The Redneck Manifesto 128 Speed is whitey's drug, from the palefaces who cook it to the Caspers who deal it to the ofay vanilla wafers who snort or spike it. en skateboarding en Casper flip. Anagrams en aceprs crapes pacers secpar Pacers recaps escarp scarpe e-scrap Cresap spacer Scaper CASREP scaper parsec scrape capers sparce Cebuano Etymology ceb :bor en:Casper + 1 Pronunciation ceb Kas per Proper noun kasper ceb male English Danish Proper noun da male Kasper References Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 11 153 males with the given name Casper (compared to 19 060 named Kasper) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011. Norwegian Bokmål Kasper no Alternative forms nb Kasper, nb Caspar, nb Kaspar Etymology A spelling variant of nb Kasper, corresponding to Danish and Swedish da Casper and sv Casper. Ultimately from Medieval Latin la-med Caspar, traditionally the name of one of the Magi in Western Christianity. The name is usually explained as ultimately deriving from an Old Persian title meaning “treasurer”, though the precise historical transmission into the medieval personal name is uncertain. The spelling nb Casper has an established Norwegian history and was used in Norway in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before becoming substantially more popular from the late twentieth century. Compare da Casper, sv Casper, de Casper, nl Casper and en Casper male given name. Pronunciation nb /ˈkas.pər/ nb aspər 2 nb Kasper nb Cas per Proper noun nb proper noun nb male Medieval Latin < Old Persian Caspar Usage notes As a variant of nb Kasper, nb Casper shares its Norwegian name day on 9 May with nb Jesper. Although the spelling also occurs internationally, it is an established Norwegian name rather than solely a recent immigrant name. Its modern Norwegian use rose sharply from the second half of the 1990s. In 2025, 92 boys in Norway were given the spelling nb Casper. Derived terms nb Caspersen patronymic surname Statistics According to Statistics Norway, 2,788 men in Norway had nb Casper as their sole or first given name as of 31 December 2025.Table 10501: Persons, by year and first name, Statistics Norway. References “Casper” in Store norske leksikon. “Casper”, Babyverden. Swedish Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Casper.wav Proper noun c sv male Kasper Tagalog Etymology tl :bor en:Casper + 1 Pronunciation Proper noun + tl male English See also tl Gaspar