Saint-Germain
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Saint-Germain is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 121K(inferred from the name graph)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 43K
- BEBelgium1 in 617K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 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 Saintgermain in US United States.
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)프랑스 센 강 가에 있는 도시.
Cited for this meaning 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saint-Germain 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 128 | Saint-Germain | 134 |
| HT Haiti | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | — | 3 |
| US United States | 230 | 1 in 1.4M | 328 | Saintgermain | 48 |
| CA Canada | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 664K | — | Saint-Germain | 31 |
| BE Belgium | 19 | 1 in 617K | 19 | — | 3 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the ht-potomitan-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germainb. 1707FRnot in their usual nameFrench general (1707–1778)
- Louis-Alexandre de Saint-Germainb. 1835FRnot in their usual nameFrench physician (1835-1897)
- Marcel Saint-Germainb. 1853FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician
- Côme Saint-Germainb. 1897CAnot in their usual nameCanadian educator
- Noël Saint-Germainb. 1922CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- Marcel Saint-Germainb. 1939CAnot in their usual nameCanadian comedian (1939-2007)
- Raymonde Saint-Germainb. 1950CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- Christian Saint-Germainb. 1960CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (born 1960)
- Marc Saint-GermainCAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer
- Maud Saint-GermainCAnot in their usual nameperforming artist in Canada
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 193 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 165 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 144 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 131 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 128 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 126 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 65 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 19 | #49,953 |
Reference works 1
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- In which country does Saint-Germain have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 562 people named Saint-Germain in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Saint-Germain.
- How common is the name Saint-Germain?
- In the United States, the national register counted 230 people named Saint-Germain in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saint-germainThe 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, “Saint-Germain”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.