Germain
Germain is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 198130 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1913
- 1,027people given the name
The story in the numbers
985 boys have been named Germain in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 30 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1980s alone account for 20%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 42 girls have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Germain | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 40 | |
| 1920s | 61 | |
| 1930s | 53 | |
| 1950s | 5 | |
| 1960s | 5 | |
| 1970s | 187 | |
| 1980s | 197 | |
| 1990s | 191 | |
| 2000s | 140 | |
| 2010s | 95 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1981, its biggest year
Germain was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1981 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Jason and David. See all of 1981.
Names that rose and fell with Germain
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lavellepeak 1989
- Armondopeak 1997
- Lavellpeak 1985
- Mariopeak 1980
- Filibertopeak 1992
- Aaronpeak 1989
- Leronpeak 1991
- Adrainpeak 1978
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.