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Around the globe, Жерве (Gervais
, Gervex
, Жерве
) is a common boy's given name. The first name Жерве is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a common principally boy's, but very infrequently feminine name, Cameroon, where it is quite a common male name, and Madagascar, where it is quite a rare masculine name. In absolute terms, the name is most common in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and France. Likewise, Жерве is the last name as well as the forename.
Жерве is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Gervase Fen , the fictional detective and Gervais , the operatic character in the opera Manon Lescaut (Auber).