How to spell...?

[GashleyCrumbTiny]

Warning: contains certain name-based prejudices! Interested to know if people would associate the following spellings with the things I do, as well as your actual preferences.

We have just about decided on Casper (or Kasper or Kaspar or Caspar) as a boy's name. But I'm struggling with how to spell.

To me, Casper looks the most normal - BUT it also sounds very American and friendly-ghostish. Caspar (as in Caspar David Friedrich) looks more European (which we'd prefer!) but I'm worried it looks like a bit of 'youneek' spelling. Kasper is probably more recognisable but through many conversations with a primary school dad and several friends, I've developed a bit of a prejudice about K names - especially for boys. Kaspar if probably more recognisable as the European variant, but also looks a bit youneek (and therefore even further towards the Kyle/Kai/Kane end of the spectrum!)

My incorrigible snobbery aside - what do people think?

[JasperDamerel]

DD would have been a Caspar had she been a boy.

Caspar for British spelling.
Casper for US spelling.

K spellings only if you have ties to somewhere where that is the standard spelling.

[1horatio]

Caspar :)

[Araminkin]

I'm in Scandinavia. Here Kasper is the most common way of writing the name.

[nooka]

I'd choose Caspar too. I suspect whatever variant you choose your son will be spelling his name, or saying Caspar with an A, Casper with a E etc all his life regardless. It's just what happens if you have a name with variant spellings, but not the end of the world.