German — #1650 US boys' name

What the Data Says About German

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,176 babies named German between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, German currently holds the #1650 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 304 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that German performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,488 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, German shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,394 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list German in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for German 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 10,176 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.