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How popular is “Germain” in the USA?

Number of people named “Germain” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Germain” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Germain” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Germain” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Germain” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Germain” by birth year

This chart shows how “Germain” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1922 10 0.000004368 10 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 13 0.000006178 13 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 32 0.000010181 5 27 -69%
1973 21 0.000006961 21 -100%
1974 21 0.000006908 5 16 -52%
1975 24 0.000007949 24 -100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 -100%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 -100%
1978 20 0.000006301 5 15 -50%
1979 28 0.000008416 28 -100%
1980 31 0.000009 5 26 -68%
1981 30 0.000008672 30 -100%
1982 28 0.000007982 28 -100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 -100%
1984 18 0.000005159 18 -100%
1985 18 0.000005043 18 -100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 -100%
1987 19 0.00000527 19 -100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 -100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 -100%
1990 21 0.000005313 21 -100%
1991 25 0.000006418 25 -100%
1992 24 0.000006248 24 -100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 -100%
1994 26 0.000006994 26 -100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 -100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 -100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 -100%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 -100%
1999 15 0.000004061 15 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2002 15 0.000004013 15 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 -100%
2006 19 0.000004803 19 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 -100%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 -100%
2009 15 0.000003927 15 -100%
2010 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 -100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 -100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 -100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 -100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 -100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

Explore other names

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  2. Gerlene
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  5. Gerlyn
  6. Germain (this page)
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