Karl-Peter
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
Karl-Peter is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 283K
- ATAustria≈1 in 450Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Karl-Peter 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 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Karl-Peter | 63 |
| SE Sweden | 36 | 1 in 283K | 36 | Karl-Peter | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 450K | 3 | Karl-Peter | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Karl-Peter | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Karl-Peter | 2 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)- Karl-Peter Hadelerb. 1936DEnot in their usual nameGerman mathematician
- Karl-Peter Wettsteinb. 1940DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1940-2013)
- Karl-Peter Wanczekb. 1940DEnot in their usual nameGerman chemist and university teacher
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Karl-Peter a male or female name?
- Karl-Peter 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Karl-Peter?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Karl-Peter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Karl-Peter. After it come Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Karl-Peter?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 36 people named Karl-Peter, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Karl-Peter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karl-peterThe 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, “Karl-Peter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.