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Jermaine

Jermaine means "Latin germanus, brother, kinsman" and comes from Latin, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It has faded some since the 1970s without dropping off entirely. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

EtymologyVariant of Germain
LatinLatin "germanus" – "brother, kinsman"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
17
1930s
19
1940s
20
1950s
42
1960s
25
1970s
13,996
1980s
13,093
1990s
6,163
2000s
5,507
2010s
2,727
Peaked in the 1970s · 41,609 total U.S. births since 1900