girls:
42 births since 1961
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
979 births since 1913
#3613 (21st percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1913
#6718 (13th percentile)
The name Germain is the #6,718 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,021 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 13.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,613 (21.2% percentile) for all time with 979 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1961.
Germain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Germain is available in 77 out of the 108 years between 1913 and 2020 (73 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Germain has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Germain reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #657) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Germain reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #739) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Germain".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Germain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.2% confident that Germain is pronounced as jer-MAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jer-MAN, at 8.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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