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esper Name Meaning and History

  1. German: most likely a topographic name for a personal who lived by or owned an area of pasture, from Middle High German esban, espan ‘pasture’ (Bavarian and Swabian Espan).
  2. North German and Danish: variant of Jesper, Low German and Danish form of Kaspar.

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Distribution of esper Families in the US in 1920
Number of esper families
 12-21
 5-11
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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