Hanspeter
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haːnʃpeːtʰɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hanspeter is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 78th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.6K
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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 Hans-Peter in DE Germany, AT Austria, SE Sweden and 1 more.
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)
Hanspeter 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #266 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Hans-Peter | 167 |
| CH Switzerland | #78 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 5 | Hanspeter | 96 |
| AT Austria | #362 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 438 | Hans-Peter | 81 |
| SE Sweden | — | 239 | 1 in 43K | 239 | Hans-Peter | 23 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Hans-Peter | 14 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Hanspeter Fischerb. 1930CHSwiss politician (1930-2009)
- Hanspeter Seilerb. 1933CHSwiss politician
- H. Achmed Schmiedeb. 1935DEnot in their usual nameGerman translator
- Hanspeter Latourb. 1947CHSwiss footballer and trainer
- Hanspeter Demetzb. 1948ITItalian architect
- Hanspeter Kriesib. 1949CHSwiss political scientist
- Hanspeter Thürb. 1949CHSwiss politician
- Hanspeter Müller-Drossaartb. 1955CHSwiss actor
- Hanspeter Kyburzb. 1960CHSwiss composer
- Hanspeter Pfisterb. 1964UScomputer scientist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Hanspeter?
- A machine transcription gives /haːnʃpeːtʰɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Hanspeter a male or female name?
- Hanspeter 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 Hanspeter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Hanspeter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Hans-Peter.
- How common is the name Hanspeter?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 239 people named Hanspeter, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Hanspeter compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hanspeter is the 266th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hanspeter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hanspeterThe 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, “Hanspeter” — the 266th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.