girls:
5 births since 1993
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
10.1k births since 1882
#1165 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.1k births since 1882
#2660 (66th percentile)
The name German is the #2,660 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,076 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 65.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,165 (74.6% percentile) for all time with 10,071 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1993.
German first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for German is available in 116 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 1 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 German has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, German reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 35.3% percentile (ranked #492) with 143 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 143 births per million (ranked 35.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, German ranks #793 for boys (13.0% percentile) with 67 births per million, which is 46.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, German reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #865) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "German".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of German.
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name German. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that German is pronounced as JER-muhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ger-MUHN, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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