Germaine
Germaine is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 480th, in 1928.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1928203 births
- Best rank
- #480in 1928
- Since 1895
- 10,261people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,904 girls have been named Germaine in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 203 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 203 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Germaine is used for both sexes: 23% of its bearers are boys (2,357), most of them born around 1972.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Germaine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 27 | |
| 1900s | 230 | |
| 1910s | 1,028 | |
| 1920s | 1,644 | |
| 1930s | 1,354 | |
| 1940s | 809 | |
| 1950s | 882 | |
| 1960s | 939 | |
| 1970s | 560 | |
| 1980s | 231 | |
| 1990s | 129 | |
| 2000s | 43 | |
| 2010s | 18 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Germaine was the 480th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Germaine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Geneviapeak 1924
- Veldapeak 1920
- Romainepeak 1928
- Loretapeak 1916
- Lavonpeak 1924
- Christeenpeak 1928
- Olethapeak 1923
- Lavetapeak 1927
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.