Jermaine
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jermaine is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant of Germain; "brother".
- GYGuyana1 in 1.1K◐
- JMJamaica1 in 2.6K
- USUnited States1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈33K ●
- Sources
- 394 ●
- 1 in 1.1K ◐
across 7 countries
449K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
variant of Germain; "brother"
Sources 1
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Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #718 | 30,651 | 417K rec. | 1 in 11K | 31K | Jermaine | 394 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,311 | 9.4K rec. | — | listed | Jermaine | 138 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,073 | 2.7K rec. | — | 5 | Jermaine | 91 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,005 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Jermaine | 67 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,480 | 2.4K rec. | — | 1 | Jermaine | 94 |
| JM Jamaica | #35 | 1,794 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Jermaine | 29 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 1,349 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Jermaine | 58 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,222 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1 | Jermaine | 84 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,191 | 787 rec. | 1 in 15K | 1.2K | Jermaine | 64 |
| GY Guyana | #32 | 681 | 971 rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 681 | Jermaine | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | 545 | 545 rec. | — | listed | Jermaine | 11 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 222 | 292 rec. | — | — | Jermaine | 23 |
Roughly 31K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 11K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English467K85%
- Spanish30K5%
- 13K2%
- French3.4K1%
- Swahili3.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 466,580 | 85% |
| Spanish | 29,610 | 5% |
| 12,603 | 2% | |
| French | 3,365 | 1% |
| Swahili | 3,347 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jermaine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: variant spelling of GERMAINE , popular in particular as a male name among Blacks in the United States.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 6 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1932 | 9 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1955 | 8 |
| 1958 | 8 |
| 1959 | 14 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 171 |
| 1971 | 1,014 |
| 1972 | 1,967 |
| 1973 | 2,038 |
| 1974 | 1,628 |
| 1975 | 1,316 |
| 1976 | 1,425 |
| 1977 | 1,374 |
| 1978 | 1,255 |
| 1979 | 1,339 |
| 1980 | 1,804 |
| 1981 | 1,681 |
| 1982 | 1,607 |
| 1983 | 1,562 |
| 1984 | 1,579 |
| 1985 | 1,155 |
| 1986 | 952 |
| 1987 | 860 |
| 1988 | 782 |
| 1989 | 820 |
| 1990 | 831 |
| 1991 | 724 |
| 1992 | 682 |
| 1993 | 652 |
| 1994 | 534 |
| 1995 | 541 |
| 1996 | 529 |
| 1997 | 507 |
| 1998 | 538 |
| 1999 | 538 |
| 2000 | 539 |
| 2001 | 558 |
| 2002 | 550 |
| 2003 | 572 |
| 2004 | 561 |
| 2005 | 572 |
| 2006 | 556 |
| 2007 | 563 |
| 2008 | 547 |
| 2009 | 470 |
| 2010 | 429 |
| 2011 | 447 |
| 2012 | 362 |
| 2013 | 314 |
| 2014 | 326 |
| 2015 | 312 |
| 2016 | 270 |
| 2017 | 276 |
| 2018 | 261 |
| 2019 | 210 |
| 2020 | 181 |
| 2021 | 183 |
| 2022 | 156 |
| 2023 | 141 |
| 2024 | 123 |
| 2025 | 118 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 72 years between 1923–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jermaine Jacksonb. 1954USAmerican musician (born 1954)
- Jermaine Duprib. 1972USAmerican record producer, rapper, songwriter and music executive (born 1972)
- Jermaine O'Nealb. 1978USAmerican basketball player (born 1978)
- Jermaine Jonesb. 1981DEGerman-American soccer player
- Jermaine Jenasb. 1983GBEnglish footballer (born 1983)
- J. Coleb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and record producer (born 1985)
- Jermaine Fowlerb. 1988USAmerican actor
- Dele Allib. 1996GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
- Cole Palmerb. 2002GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (born 2002)
- Jamie Gittensb. 2004GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (born 2004)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 39 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 277 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jermaine?
- We estimate roughly 33 thousand people bear Jermaine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jermaine have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 31 thousand people bear Jermaine in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jermaine.
- Where is Jermaine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jermaine is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Jermaine compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jermaine is the 718th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Jermaine a male or female name?
- Jermaine is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Jermaine mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Germain; "brother"
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jermaine” — the 718th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.