# John-Paul (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/john-paul/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,060 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,060 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 476, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 161 | 1,127 |
| 2012 | 124 | 1,363 |
| 2013 | 106 | 1,524 |
| 2014 | 167 | 1,139 |
| 2015 | 136 | 1,305 |
| 2016 | 122 | 1,426 |
| 2017 | 126 | 1,395 |
| 2018 | 123 | 1,425 |
| 2019 | 99 | 1,646 |
| 2020 | 109 | 1,530 |
| 2021 | 87 | 1,806 |
| 2022 | 92 | 1,789 |
| 2023 | 84 | 1,886 |
| 2024 | 88 | 1,841 |
| 2025 | 101 | 1,658 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,087 |
| 2012 | 25 | 1,086 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,183 |
| 2014 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,279 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,398 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 15 | 1,587 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,269 |

## People named John-Paul

- John Paul Jones, American naval officer (1747–1792)
- John Paul Getty III, eldest of the five children of John Paul Getty, Jr. (1956-2011)
- John Paul Getty Jr., British philanthropist and book collector (1932–2003)
- John Paul Tremblay, Canadian actor
- John Paul Pitoc, American actor
- John Paul Ruttan, Canadian child actor
- Scatman John, American musician (1942–1999)
- John Densmore, American drummer (born 1944)
- JP Cooper, British musician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.