Peter-John
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Peter-John is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 153K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 607K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 153K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Peterjohn in US United States, PH Philippines.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peter-John counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Peter-John | 28 |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Peterjohn | 15 |
| US United States | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | 7 | Peterjohn | 69 |
| AU Australia | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 607K | 3 | Peter-John | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | listed | Peter-John | 26 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Peter-John | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peter-John Vetteseb. 1956GBnot in their usual nameBritish keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and record producer
- PJ Steenkampb. 1998ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African rugby union footballer (1998-)
- Peter-John KerrCAnot in their usual nameCanadian songwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1967 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1967 | 2 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1992 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1975 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1973 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1970 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1966 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1965 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2007 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1999 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Peter-John a male or female name?
- Peter-John is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Peter-John have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 369 people named Peter-John in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Peter-John.
- How common is the name Peter-John?
- Mondonomo estimates about 370 people in South Africa have Peter-John as their first given name, about 1 in 153 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Peter-John?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peter-johnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Peter-John”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.