Germain
At the 2020 census, 7,665 Americans bore the surname Germain — 4,493rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 39,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 7,665
- Rank
- 4,493rd
- How common
- 1 in 39,000
- Per 100,000
- 2.6
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
A patronymic from a medieval given name, identical with the French one; or from an ethnic term for a German.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Germain described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Germain
- Sophie Germain (1776–1831)French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
- Tabitha St. Germain (born 1962)Canadian actress
- Valère Germain (born 1990)French footballer
- Ryo Germain (born 1995)Japanese association football player
- George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716–1785)British Army general
- St Germain (born 1969)French musician, DJ, record producer and composer
- Sylvie Germain (born 1954)French writer
- Bruno Germain (born 1960)French footballer
People named Germain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Germain
Also a first name
Germain has been given to 1,034 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1981. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.