Entry № 3538 · Italian origin

Gaspara Gaspara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GAS-pah-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Renaissance Venetian poet (290 sonnets)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "renaissance venetian poet (290 sonnets)".

Gaspara is the feminine of Gaspare (Caspar — one of the Three Magi). Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) was the most celebrated female poet of the Italian Renaissance — Venetian courtesan and composer of 290 sonnets and madrigals on her tragic love affair with Count Collaltino di Collalto. Praised by Rilke as embodying the supreme example of "unrequited love that can outlast its object" in his Duino Elegies. Died at 31, possibly by her own hand.

Subject of Rilke's First Duino Elegy.

Venetian courtesan-poet. 290 sonnets of unrequited love; Rilke memorialized her in the Duino Elegies.

The name in its native script.

Gaspara
Transliteration
Gaspara
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡæs.pə.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gaspara stands.

Gaspara does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gasparas before her.

Real people
Gaspara Stampa
Italian Renaissance poet.
1523 – 1554
In fiction
Gaspara
Rilke's First Duino Elegy.
1922

Names connected to Gaspara.

The number behind Gaspara.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gaspara reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.