Gèrman
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gèrman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Late Latin name Ger- manus ‘brother’, sometimes used with the meaning ‘brother in God’.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 786(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 793
- COColombia≈1 in 851
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gèrman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #721 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 404 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 786 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled German in AR Argentina, US United States, PE Peru and 3 more, Герман in RU Russia and Herman in NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Late Latin name Ger- manus ‘brother’, sometimes used with the meaning ‘brother in God’.
Sources 14
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gèrman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #165 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 786 | 1.6K | German | 158 |
| CO Colombia | #139 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 851 | 90 | German | 176 |
| RU Russia | #146 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | #69 | Герман | 182 |
| US United States | — | 42,824as Herman | 1 in 7.8K | 43K | German | 404 |
| PE Peru | #179 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 960 | — | German | 96 |
| ES Spain | #213 | 24,059 | 1 in 2.1K | 24K | German | 190 |
| SV El Salvador | #223 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 793 | — | German | 53 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,766as Herman | 1 in 948 | 22K | Herman | 13 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gèrman mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Late Latin name Ger- manus ‘brother’, sometimes used with the meaning ‘brother in God’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 12 other sources.
- Is Gèrman a male or female name?
- Gèrman 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.
- In which country does Gèrman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Gèrman in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled german.
- How common is the name Gèrman?
- In Spain, the national register counted 24,059 people named Gèrman, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Gèrman compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Gèrman is the 165th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A8rmanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Gèrman” — the 165th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.