Jean-Paul
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒəanpɔl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jean-Paul is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Jean (“John”) + Paul (“Paul”). Cognate with Italian Gianpaolo.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 8.4K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 984 (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Luxembourg, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jeanpaul in US United States.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Jean (“John”) + Paul (“Paul”). Cognate with Italian Gianpaolo.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jean-Paul 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #299 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 88K | Jean-Paul | 308 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #629 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 10 | Jean-Paul | 19 |
| BE Belgium | #312 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Jean-Paul | 91 |
| US United States | — | 3,341 | 1 in 100K | 3.3K | Jeanpaul | 259 |
| CA Canada | #875 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Jean-Paul | 131 |
| CH Switzerland | #443 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Jean-Paul | 64 |
| LU Luxembourg | #4 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 984 | — | Jean-Paul | 41 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Jean-Paul Maratb. 1743FRnot in their usual namepolitician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
- Jean-Paul Laurensb. 1838FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter (1838-1921)
- Jean-Paul Sartreb. 1905FRnot in their usual nameFrench existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
- Maurice Trintignantb. 1917FRnot in their usual nameFrench racecar driver (1917–2005)
- Jean-Pierre Mockyb. 1929FRnot in their usual nameFrench film director and actor (1929–2019)
- Jean-Paul Rappeneaub. 1932FRnot in their usual nameFrench film director and screenwriter (born 1932)
- Jean-Paul Belmondob. 1933FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor (1933–2021)
- Jean-Paul Saloméb. 1960FRnot in their usual nameFrench film director
- Jean-Paul Rouveb. 1967FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor, film director and screenwriter
- Triple Hb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
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 38 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2022 | 88K | #2,718 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 10 | #51 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,319 |
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
- What does the name Jean-Paul mean, and where does it come from?
- From Jean (“John”) + Paul (“Paul”). Cognate with Italian Gianpaolo. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Jean-Paul?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒəanpɔl/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Jean-Paul a male or female name?
- Jean-Paul 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jean-Paul?
- In the etymology graph, Paul and Gianpaolo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jean-Paul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Jean-Paul in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jean-paul.
- How common is the name Jean-Paul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,341 people named Jean-Paul in 2020, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
- How common is Jean-Paul compared with other names?
- In France, Jean-Paul is the 299th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jean-Paul?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jean-paulThe 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, “Jean-Paul” — the 299th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.