Find out how popular the last name Gaspard is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Gaspard.

Gaspard, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Gaspard surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Gaspard in America

Gaspard is the 6427th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Gaspard surname appeared 5,285 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 people would have the surname Gaspard.

We can also compare 2010 data for Gaspard to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Gaspard

The surname Gaspard is of French origin and can be traced back to the Middle Ages. It is derived from the French personal name Gaspard, which itself comes from the Persian word "Gaspar" meaning "treasurer". This name was one of the traditional names given to one of the Three Wise Men or Magi in the Bible.

Gaspard was a relatively common surname in medieval France, particularly in the regions of Normandy, Brittany, and Burgundy. One of the earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086, which mentions a Gaspard de Grentemesnil who held lands in Leicestershire, England.

In the 13th century, there are records of a knight named Gaspard de Champlitte who fought in the Crusades and participated in the siege of Acre in 1191. Another notable bearer of the name was Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572), a prominent French Huguenot leader during the French Wars of Religion.

During the Renaissance period, the Gaspard surname was associated with several notable artists and intellectuals. One such figure was Pierre Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675), a French Baroque landscape painter also known as Gaspard Poussin. Another was Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), a French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry.

In the 19th century, Gaspard Coriolis (1792-1843) was a French mathematician and scientist best known for his work on the Coriolis effect, a deflection of objects caused by the Earth's rotation. Another famous Gaspard was Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), better known as Nadar, a French photographer, caricaturist, and balloonist.

While the surname Gaspard is still found today, particularly in France and other French-speaking regions, its prevalence has diminished over time compared to its heyday in medieval and Renaissance France.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Gaspard

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Gaspard.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Gaspard was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Gaspard has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Gaspard was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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