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Germaine

As a gender-neutral name, Germaine is understood to mean "brother, kinsman". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

FrenchFrench, from Latin "germanus"
EtymologyMeaning "brother, kinsman"
Births by decade
1900s
230
1910s
1,028
1920s
1,644
1930s
1,354
1940s
809
1950s
882
1960s
946
1970s
1,532
1980s
796
1990s
488
2000s
308
2010s
157
Peaked in the 1920s · 10,174 total U.S. births since 1900