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Jermain

#11,258 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Germain

Jermain has been given to 2,010 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #11,258 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Jermain, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jermain over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jermain: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Germain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jermain means

Jermain is a variant of Germain.

Origin, language, and formation

Jermain is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Germain.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,010 boys were recorded with the name Jermain between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1981; its best national rank was #821 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,361 in 2020 to #11,258 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,391 in 2015 to #11,258 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jermain?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,258
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jermain sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jermain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jermains were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jermain was born before 1984 — so the typical Jermain is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,010
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1980s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (647).

Is Jermain rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,630
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,897
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,867
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.8%
Peak was 1981 (104)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#821
1973

Spellings of Jermain

Jermain is not the most common spelling — Herman is, with 66.5% against Jermain's 0.98%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jermain is used

Across 1910–2025, Jermain was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 159,119 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jermain has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jermain around the world

Where Jermain ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2016
    #3,478
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #1,945
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1994–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jermain

People whose public names include Jermain, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jermain by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,258
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,897
Best rank ever
#821
1973
Peak year
1981
104 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,010
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jermain

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jermain

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jermain, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChadrickLavarJeremeCorryTavaresChaddDemetricAntwainJeramieBrandyKristofferJeremey

Sibling names for Jermain

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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