Germans
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Germans is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 88K
- NONorway≈1 in 899K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
770 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Germans 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #818 | 770 | 1 in 2.4K | 770 | Germans | 33 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 986K | 127 | Germans | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 7 | Germans | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | — | Germans | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 899K | 12 | Germans | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | 2 |
770 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Germans is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of german
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, genitive singular of German
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Obadiah Germanb. 1766USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1766-1842)
- Edward Germanb. 1862GBnot in their usual nameEnglish musician and composer (1862–1936)
- Tülay Germanb. 1935TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer (born 1935)
- Anna Germanb. 1936PLnot in their usual namePolish singer, popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union (1936-1982)
- Yael Germanb. 1947ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- John Germanb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican engineer and author
- Janusz Germanb. 1974PLnot in their usual namePolish actor
- Lauren Germanb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Zachary Germanb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer
- Antonio Germanb. 1991GBnot in their usual nameGrenadian association football player (born 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 770 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 766 | #493 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #22,629 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #2,653 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #51,191 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Germans mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Germans a male or female name?
- Germans 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 Germans have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 770 people named Germans, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled germans.
- Where is Germans most common?
- Germans is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Germans?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 770 people named Germans, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Germans compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Germans is the 818th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/germansThe 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, “Germans” — the 818th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.