Girl · Latin, through French
Germaine
Say it: zhehr-MEN
Meaning
From Latin germanus 'of the same parents, brother', through French; St Germaine Cousin made it popular.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1900s
In the United States
- 10,223 babies given this name since 1895
- At its height in 1908, about 1 in 7,000 girls
- 6 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Italian | Germana |
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Famous bearers
- Germaine de Staël, writer
- Germaine Tillion, ethnologist
- Germaine Lauzon, central character of Michel Tremblay's play Les Belles-sœurs
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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