Hanspeter

given name · German · Latin script

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

Hanspeter is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Switzerland it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1K
  • DEGermany1 in 1.4K
  • ATAustria1 in 3.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈591

across 9 countries

Sources
156

88K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 43K

Sweden

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hans-Peter in DE Germany, AT Austria, PL Poland and 15 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hanspeter is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#26388,08877K rec.Hans-Peter156
CH Switzerland#777,5753.7K rec.5Hanspeter82
AT Austria#4704,3151.4K rec.438Hans-Peter80
US United States1,9321.7K rec.Hanspeter92
UA Ukraine434425 rec.Hanspeter6
GB United Kingdom250162 rec.Hans-Peter26
SE Sweden23995 rec.1 in 43K239Hans-Peter22
BE Belgium221200 rec.Hans-Peter14
ES Spain211837 rec.1 in 237K211Hanspeter17
AU Australia185162 rec.1Hans-Peter23
NO Norway12737 rec.106Hans-Peter18
IT Italy110136 rec.Hanspeter22

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • German11K70%
  • English1.4K9%
  • Chinese6964%
  • Portuguese4143%
  • Vietnamese3132%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German11,26470%
English1,4379%
Chinese6964%
Portuguese4143%
Vietnamese3132%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Hanspeter is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name1.1K records spelled Hanspeter10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, France, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

    Also written Hans-Peter

  • a separate given name259 records spelled Hanspeter2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Hans-Peter

  • Italian given name108 records spelled Hanspeter2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Italy

    Also written Hans-Peter

  • Russian given name84 records spelled Hanspeter8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Russia

    Also written Hans-Peter, Ханс-Петер, Ханспетер

  • Croatian given name59 records spelled Hanspeter12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Switzerland

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

    Also written Hans-Peter, Ханс-Петер

  • Hungarian given name56 records spelled Hanspeter3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Hungary

    Also written Hans-Peter, Hans Peter

  • Czech given name48 records spelled Hanspeter4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Slovakia, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Hans-Peter

  • Thai given name45 records spelled Hanspeter3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Switzerland

    Also written Hans-Peter

  • Polish given name44 records spelled Hanspeter3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Switzerland, Ukraine

    Also written Hans-Peter, Hans Peter

23 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.

Notable people with this name

1920194019601980Hanspeter Fischer, b. 1930Hanspeter Seiler, b. 1933H. Achmed Schmiede, b. 1935Hanspeter Latour, b. 1947Hanspeter Demetz, b. 1948Hanspeter Kriesi, b. 1949Hanspeter Thür, b. 1949Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, b. 1955Hanspeter Kyburz, b. 1960Hanspeter Pfister, b. 1964

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

Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Hanspeter
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)201571#1,656
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)20#25,778
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)15#35,826
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)12#33,240
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)11
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)19938#232
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)19848#196
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)19867#209
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)19857#214
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)6#9,676
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)19916#253
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)19876#237

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 2026-09-12 data build · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hanspeter?
We estimate roughly 591 people bear Hanspeter (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Hanspeter have the most bearers?
Hanspeter is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled Hans-Peter.
How common is Hanspeter compared with other names?
In Germany, Hanspeter is the 263rd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Hanspeter a male or female name?
Hanspeter 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.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Hanspeter” — the 263rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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