John-Paul
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɑnpɔɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
John-Paul is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 43K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 47K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, 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 Johnpaul in PH Philippines, US United States, NG Nigeria and 2 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)
John-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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | JohnPaul | 58 |
| US United States | — | 7,819 | 1 in 43K | 7.8K | JohnPaul | 249 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | JohnPaul | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 155K | JohnPaul | 47 |
| UG Uganda | #667 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | JohnPaul | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 4 | John-Paul | 141 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). 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)
- John-Paul Himkab. 1949CAnot in their usual nameAmerican-Canadian historian and retired professor of history of the University of Alberta in Edmonton
- John-Paul Bogartb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican bass/bass-baritone singer
- John-Paul Kellyb. 1959CAnot in their usual nameCanadian ice hockey player
- John-Paul Davidsonb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish television director
- J. P. Piperb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player-coach
- John-Paul Wallaceb. 1976AUnot in their usual nameAustralian chess player
- John-Paul Clarkinb. 1978NZnot in their usual namepolo player
- John-Paul Marksnot in their usual nameBritish civil servant
- John-Paul M. HodnettUSnot in their usual namepaleontologist
- John-Paul DankoCAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2007 | 8 | #354 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1978 | 7 | #207 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1979 | 6 | #217 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2014 | 5 | #315 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2012 | 5 | #500 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1997 | 5 | #322 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1993 | 5 | #305 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2018 | 4 | #595 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2013 | 4 | #343 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2011 | 4 | #544 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2009 | 4 | #549 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2008 | 4 | #535 |
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
- How do you pronounce John-Paul?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɑnpɔɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is John-Paul a male or female name?
- John-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.
- In which country does John-Paul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named John-Paul in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled JohnPaul.
- How common is the name John-Paul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,819 people named John-Paul in 2020, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is John-Paul compared with other names?
- In Uganda, John-Paul is the 667th most common given name of 2,133 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about John-Paul?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/john-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, “John-Paul” — the 667th most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.