Caspar or Caspian?

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Which do you prefer and why?

Caspian I think, just because Caspar is so trendy at the moment, I'm not sure it will age well. Lots of Caspars and Jaspers at baby groups near me, but haven't heard any little Caspians

Caspar.

@namesneeded the caspars you’ve met must be a bit of a statistical anomaly then! Casper is outside the top 300 and Caspar outside the top 600 names - there’s barely any - even names like Alan are more popular!

I much prefer Caspar to Caspian as Caspian to NMMR is too frilly and feminine and with 3 syllables will definitely be shortened to Cas which sounds too much like Gas for me

Caspar

Caspian! Sounds so romantic and dashing

Casper = friendly ghost

Caspar will usually be incorrectly said as "Casper the friendly ghost"
Caspian is not all that well used and seems ok to me.

Caspar

I’m biased but I have a 1yr old Caspar and I love it. Anecdotally I’ve heard of a few others in the area but haven’t actually come across any yet.

It sometimes gets abbreviated to Cas which I also like.

Of the two, Caspian. It sounds like a romantic hero.

No spelling issues as there could be with Caspar/Casper.

Caspian ♥️ I wish DH would have let me use it

Absolutely love both. Possibly Caspian, if I had to choose.

I really like both. I'd probably lean to Caspar but I'd struggle to tell you why!!

Caspian is definitely preferable to Caspar

I'm sorry but I think of the ghost when I hear Casper.

Definitely caspar

Like the Caspian Sea?

Caspar. Caspian's a fictional character invented for the Narnia books, and a sea. I don’t dislike it, though.

I love Caspar. I'm not keen on the ian sound ending of Caspian, Damien, Adrian.

Caspian sounds great. Very dashing.

Thanks so much everyone 😊 I also (sort of) think Casper the ghost but I think it might be a generational thing, because I asked my young niece and nephew and they were like 'who is Casper the ghost?' and had never heard the name before. Even I'm a little young for it tbh, having been born in the early 90s - I think it's more something I've just heard of culturally rather than something I've ever actually seen.

Where do you live OP? Caspian is quite a large chain of pizza takeaways around here.

Caspar is very nice though.

@Badabingbadabum I'm in the South East. I've never heard of the takeaway chain!

Must be a Midlands one then! You should be alright!

Still prefer Caspar though, and I agree that the "friendly ghost" connections will not come up at school as it is too old a cartoon now.

Caspian is amazing!

Caspian. From Prince Caspian by C.S.Lewis. A beautiful name.