Germaine — unisex name

What the Data Says About Germaine

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,904 babies named Germaine between 1895 and 2023, spanning 129 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Germaine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1928, when 203 babies received it in a single year. Germaine is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,357 additional births since 1967.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Germaine performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,644 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Germaine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Wisconsin, which accounts for 648 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Germaine in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Germaine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,904 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.