Jermaine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jermaine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 45th most common given name. Recorded meaning: variant of Germain; "brother".
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11K
- NLNetherlands1 in 14K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 438 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Germain; "brother"
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jermaine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Jermaine | 10 |
| US United States | #737 | 31,139 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Jermaine | 438 |
| GB United Kingdom | #964 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Jermaine | 172 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Jermaine | 78 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Jermaine | 59 |
| JM Jamaica | #51 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Jermaine | 31 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,211 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Jermaine | 64 |
| GY Guyana | #45 | 681 | 1 in 1.1K | 681 | Jermaine | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Jermaine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: variant spelling of GERMAINE , popular in particular as a male name among Blacks in the United States.
as a word
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)
- Jermaine Jacksonb. 1954USAmerican musician (born 1954)
- Jermaine Duprib. 1972USAmerican record producer, rapper, songwriter and music executive (born 1972)
- Jermaine O'Nealb. 1978USAmerican basketball player (born 1978)
- Jermaine Jonesb. 1981DEGerman-American soccer player
- Jermaine Jenasb. 1983GBEnglish footballer (born 1983)
- J. Coleb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and record producer (born 1985)
- Jermaine Fowlerb. 1988USAmerican actor
- Dele Allib. 1996GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
- Cole Palmerb. 2002GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (born 2002)
- Jamie Gittensb. 2004GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (born 2004)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Jermaine a male or female name?
- Jermaine 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.
- What does the name Jermaine mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Germain; "brother" Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Jermaine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Jermaine in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jermaine.
- Where is Jermaine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jermaine is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Jermaine?
- In the etymology graph, German, Germán and Germanus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Jermaine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,139 people named Jermaine in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Jermaine compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Jermaine is the 45th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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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, “Jermaine” — the 45th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.