Jean-Pierre
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name, a compound of Jean (French form of John) + Pierre (French form of Peter)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 31 countries · latest register: Alberta Open Government, 2024
/ʒəanpjɛʀʀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jean-Pierre is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 956(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.3K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 956 (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
(measured from records)from the personal name, a compound of Jean (French form of John) + Pierre (French form of Peter).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jean-Pierre 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 | #166 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 956 | 215K | Jean-Pierre | 333 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #352 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | 18 | Jean-Pierre | 18 |
| BE Belgium | #140 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 212 | Jean-Pierre | 118 |
| CA Canada | #757 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 1 | Jean-Pierre | 164 |
| US United States | — | 2,852 | 1 in 117K | 4.5K | Jean-Pierre | 245 |
| CH Switzerland | #216 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Jean-Pierre | 90 |
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); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Jean-Pierre 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, a popular combination of Jean and Pierre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, de Jean et Pierre
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)- Jean-Pierre Melvilleb. 1917FRnot in their usual nameFrench filmmaker and actor (1917–1973)
- Jean-Pierre Serreb. 1926FRnot in their usual nameFrench mathematician
- Jean-Pierre Casselb. 1932FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor (1932-2007)
- Jean-Pierre Marielleb. 1932FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor (1932–2019)
- Jean-Pierre Léaudb. 1944FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor
- Jean-Pierre Sauvageb. 1944FRnot in their usual nameFrench nanotechnologist
- Jean-Pierre Raffarinb. 1948FRnot in their usual name94th Prime Minister of France
- Jean-Pierre Dardenneb. 1951BEnot in their usual nameBelgian director, film producer and screenwriter (born 1951)
- Jean-Pierre Jeunetb. 1953FRnot in their usual nameFrench film director
- Jean-Pierre Papinb. 1963FRnot in their usual nameFrench football manager
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 215K | #2,594 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 18 | #20 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2023 | 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-Pierre mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name, a compound of Jean (French form of John) + Pierre (French form of Peter). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jean-Pierre?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒəanpjɛʀʀ/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Jean-Pierre a male or female name?
- Jean-Pierre is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2023), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Jean-Pierre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Jean-Pierre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jean-pierre.
- How common is the name Jean-Pierre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,852 people named Jean-Pierre in 2020, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Jean-Pierre compared with other names?
- In France, Jean-Pierre is the 166th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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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-pierreThe 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-Pierre” — the 166th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.