Gaspard Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Arms linked to Gaspar and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Gaspard

Not every Gaspard is related, but the name itself grew out of Gaspar. The name is usually explained as “Treasurer”.

Before spelling was fixed, Gaspar was also written Gaspard. Other spellings include Caspar. Gaspard ranked 6,427 in the 2010 US Census, with 5,285 people answering to the name. Between 1891 and 2000, 5,199 babies born in France were registered as Gaspard, with the most births in 1961–1970. There were 222 such births in the 1890s and 560 in the 1990s.

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