Gérmain
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gérmain is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Name of a fifth century French saint, Latin Germanus, "a German", also from germanus "brother, sibling".
- HTHaiti≈1 in 570few records(inferred from the name graph)
- DMDominica1 in 1K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 323 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 572 (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Germain in FR France, US United States, CA Canada and 2 more.
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)Name of a fifth century French saint, Latin Germanus, "a German", also from germanus "brother, sibling".
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gérmain is found
(measured from records)Gérmain 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | #6 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 572 | — | Germain | 19 |
| FR France | #126 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 33K | Germain | 323 |
| US United States | — | 7,332 | 1 in 45K | 7.7K | Germain | 250 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 1 | Germain | 170 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Germain | 51 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 5 | — | 10 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 5 | — | 9 |
| GF French Guiana | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 5 | — | 7 |
| DM Dominica | — | 74 | 1 in 1K | 74 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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 Gérmain mean, and where does it come from?
- Name of a fifth century French saint, Latin Germanus, "a German", also from germanus "brother, sibling". Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Gérmain a male or female name?
- Gérmain 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gérmain?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Gérmain in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled germain. After it come France, United States, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gérmain?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,332 people named Gérmain in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Gérmain compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Gérmain is the 6th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gérmain?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A9rmainThe 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, “Gérmain” — the 6th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.