Jean-Jacques

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jean-Jacques is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the personal name, a compound of Jean (see John) + Jacques.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 8K
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 12K

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)

≈21,000 people, est.

Sources
308 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the personal name, a compound of Jean (see John) + Jacques.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jean-Jacques 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.

Where Jean-Jacques is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#415≈21,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K54KJean-Jacques308
CN China—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 528K—Jean-Jacques5
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 47K8Jean-Jacques15
BE Belgium#797≈1,500 est.≈1 in 8K5Jean-Jacques65
CM Cameroon—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 23K—Jean-Jacques8
CH Switzerland#488≈720 est.≈1 in 12K5Jean-Jacques53
ES Spain—1381 in 362K139—18

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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jean-Jacques is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jeanjacques

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jeanjacques, Jean Jacques

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, United States, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Jeanjacques

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Jeanjacques

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Jeanjacques

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Switzerland

    Also written Jeanjacques

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jean-Jacques is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, a male given name, combination of Jean and Jacques

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, de Jean et Jacques

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Jean-Jacques Rousseau, b. 1712Jean-Jacques Dessalines, b. 1758John James Audubon, b. 1785Jean-Jacques Honorat, b. 1931Jean-Jacques Schuhl, b. 1941Jean-Jacques Annaud, b. 1943Jean-Jacques Beineix, b. 1946Jean-Jacques Favier, b. 1949Jean-Jacques Goldman, b. 1951Jean-Jacques Gosso, b. 1983

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 28 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Jean-Jacques
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991193—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952

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-Jacques mean, and where does it come from?
from the personal name, a compound of Jean (see John) + Jacques. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Is Jean-Jacques a male or female name?
Jean-Jacques 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 Jean-Jacques have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Jean-Jacques in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jean-jacques.
How common is the name Jean-Jacques?
In Spain, the national register counted 138 people named Jean-Jacques, about 1 in 362 thousand residents.
How common is Jean-Jacques compared with other names?
In France, Jean-Jacques is the 415th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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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-Jacques” — the 415th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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