German Forename
1,438th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 678,776 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Colombia
Highest density in:
Bolivia
German Forename Definition:
A male name. Latin Germanus ‘a German’. There were two French saints of this name, St Germain of Auxerre (c. 378-448) and St Germain of Paris (c. 496c. 576). It was introduced into England by the Normans, and there is one Germanus in Domesday Book.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 100% | 120,987 | 1:395 | 64 |
| Mexico | 100% | 109,150 | 1:1,137 | 217 |
| Argentina | 100% | 54,271 | 1:788 | 175 |
| Russia | 100% | 40,605 | 1:3,552 | 231 |
| Peru | 100% | 39,666 | 1:801 | 155 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 32,593 | 1:325 | 64 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 31,089 | 1:971 | 153 |
| Chile | 100% | 26,189 | 1:672 | 153 |
| Spain | 100% | 26,168 | 1:1,778 | 250 |
| Ecuador | - | 25,713 | 1:689 | 150 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 23,990 | 1:671 | 143 |
| United States | 100% | 23,709 | 1:15,291 | 1,394 |
| Honduras | 100% | 21,690 | 1:407 | 58 |
| Philippines | 99% | 15,190 | 1:6,979 | 1,063 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 12,163 | 1:858 | 133 |
| Cuba | - | 9,632 | 1:1,195 | 258 |
| El Salvador | - | 9,401 | 1:675 | 123 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 8,585 | 1:701 | 129 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 7,831 | 1:609 | 125 |
| Paraguay | 99% | 7,508 | 1:964 | 234 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 4,570 | 1:750 | 153 |
| Belarus | 99% | 3,454 | 1:2,745 | 163 |
| Germany | 100% | 2,968 | 1:32,573 | 1,170 |
| Panama | 100% | 2,838 | 1:1,377 | 268 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 100% | 2,362 | 1:482 | 131 |
| Uzbekistan | 98% | 2,096 | 1:14,688 | 1,567 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,559 | 1:137,419 | 6,899 |
| South Africa | 99% | 1,143 | 1:47,710 | 5,016 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 1,124 | 1:15,789 | 1,114 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 991 | 1:31,092 | 3,837 |
| Canada | 100% | 821 | 1:40,357 | 2,883 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 798 | 1:4,449 | 431 |
| Poland | 100% | 518 | 1:73,411 | 1,760 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 419 | 1:19,603 | 1,398 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 408 | 1:632,264 | 44,571 |
| India | 96% | 395 | 1:3,075,640 | 138,838 |
| Estonia | 100% | 382 | 1:3,443 | 601 |
| Nigeria | 91% | 365 | 1:486,478 | 15,438 |
| Malawi | 100% | 360 | 1:47,534 | 3,231 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 318 | 1:48,503 | 4,234 |
| Thailand | 100% | 282 | 1:248,460 | 15,119 |
| England | 100% | 241 | 1:230,718 | 6,454 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 217 | 1:32,214 | 1,980 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 199 | 1:30,016 | 3,254 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 181 | 1:53,276 | 3,216 |
| Austria | 100% | 172 | 1:49,501 | 1,507 |
| Belize | 100% | 157 | 1:2,257 | 519 |
| Egypt | 100% | 152 | 1:604,611 | 14,932 |
| Georgia | 99% | 152 | 1:24,595 | 1,595 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 152 | 1:55,098 | 2,255 |
| DR Congo | 78% | 151 | 1:488,925 | 17,342 |
| Armenia | 100% | 148 | 1:19,721 | 1,183 |
| Latvia | - | 143 | 1:14,095 | 784 |
| Sweden | 100% | 133 | 1:74,120 | 3,476 |
| Zambia | - | 128 | 1:123,866 | 5,313 |
| France | 100% | 126 | 1:527,542 | 5,535 |
| Pakistan | 58% | 122 | 1:1,593,096 | 23,608 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 114 | 1:48,008 | 778 |
| Moldova | 100% | 99 | 1:35,971 | 798 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 94 | 1:179,809 | 7,111 |
| Portugal | - | 92 | 1:113,162 | 2,965 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 85 | 1:5,596 | 252 |
| Italy | 97% | 83 | 1:735,688 | 6,970 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 81 | 1:293,453 | 21,729 |
| Australia | - | 74 | 1:184,562 | 4,863 |
| Papua New Guinea | 68% | 74 | 1:110,166 | 9,924 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 73 | 1:40,437 | 1,043 |
| Afghanistan | 80% | 69 | 1:472,805 | 8,114 |
| Botswana | 100% | 63 | 1:34,674 | 3,690 |
| Finland | 100% | 45 | 1:121,849 | 2,615 |
| Belgium | 100% | 42 | 1:273,572 | 5,773 |
| Namibia | - | 37 | 1:64,978 | 3,614 |
| Tanzania | 83% | 37 | 1:1,426,711 | 21,206 |
| Aruba | - | 33 | 1:3,145 | 634 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 33 | 1:654,864 | 19,559 |
| Denmark | - | 32 | 1:176,547 | 4,105 |
| Ireland | 100% | 31 | 1:149,791 | 3,159 |
| Norway | 100% | 31 | 1:165,559 | 4,446 |
| Hong Kong | - | 29 | 1:267,335 | 3,524 |
| Uganda | 100% | 29 | 1:1,412,308 | 21,370 |
| China | - | 28 | 1:48,787,706 | 62,196 |
| Angola | - | 25 | 1:1,078,664 | 2,481 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 25 | 1:3,902,405 | 10,287 |
| Malaysia | 97% | 25 | 1:1,217,998 | 40,661 |
| Israel | 100% | 23 | 1:365,344 | 8,396 |
| Andorra | - | 22 | 1:3,768 | 371 |
| Qatar | 100% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 19 | 1:12,812 | 900 |
| New Zealand | - | 19 | 1:238,739 | 7,355 |
| Curaçao | - | 16 | 1:9,738 | 620 |
| Czechia | 92% | 16 | 1:666,010 | 2,826 |
| North Macedonia | - | 15 | 1:139,384 | 5,526 |
| Guam | - | 14 | 1:11,475 | 1,503 |
| Iraq | - | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| Scotland | 50% | 14 | 1:382,169 | 5,277 |
| Turkey | 75% | 14 | 1:5,557,265 | 23,905 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 13 | 1:156,923 | 11,892 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 13 | 1:2,912 | 381 |
| Japan | - | 12 | 1:10,665,505 | 35,725 |
| Ukraine | - | 12 | 1:3,791,659 | 7,438 |
| Cyprus | - | 11 | 1:79,189 | 2,418 |
| Libya | - | 9 | 1:691,257 | 1,282 |
| Singapore | 100% | 9 | 1:698,562 | 12,752 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 9 | 1:1,283,447 | 1,308 |
| Sudan | - | 9 | 1:4,200,775 | 4,893 |
| South Korea | - | 8 | 1:693,053 | 14,847 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 7 | 1:1,021,713 | 39,786 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:18,291 | 1,938 |
| Benin | - | 5 | 1:2,115,169 | 40,564 |
| Albania | 100% | 4 | 1:761,642 | 22,793 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Ghana | - | 4 | 1:6,746,554 | 8,075 |
| Malta | - | 4 | 1:107,340 | 2,111 |
| Romania | - | 4 | 1:5,012,994 | 31,756 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,327,516 | 4,597 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Wales | 100% | 4 | 1:773,577 | 8,486 |
| Greece | - | 3 | 1:3,644,849 | 16,562 |
| Lebanon | - | 3 | 1:1,875,857 | 11,580 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Yemen | - | 3 | 1:8,765,584 | 9,038 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Croatia | - | 2 | 1:2,108,538 | 15,895 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Kosovo | - | 2 | 1:930,720 | 16,593 |
| Liberia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,206,030 | 27,695 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Congo | - | 1 | 1:5,009,205 | 37,978 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Kenya | - | 1 | 1:46,307,110 | 74,921 |
| Kuwait | - | 1 | 1:3,785,264 | 15,388 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Monaco | - | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Suriname | 100% | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 1 | 1:1,361,419 | 34,512 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
The alternate forms: Germán (3,942), Germàn (58), Germân (3), Gérman (3) & Germań (1) are calculated separately.
German (87,371) may also be a surname.
German Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Latin Germanus ‘a German’. There were two French saints of this name, St Germain of Auxerre (c. 378-448) and St Germain of Paris (c. 496c. 576). It was introduced into England by the Normans, and there is one Germanus in Domesday Book. It was not uncommon in the 13th C and gave rise to various surnames, e.g. German, Germans, Germain, Jarman, Jermyn, &c. Jerman and German mayne are found as christian name: as late as the beginning of the 17th C.
Germanus Domesday Book 1086, Curia Regis Rolls 1199, 1200, Hundred Rolls 273, Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379. Germayne Yorks Rec 1604. Jerman Visitation of London 1634.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
German Forename Popularity
German Demographics
Average German Salary in
United States
$43,298 USD
Per year
Rank:
207,509 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.00674247
Rank: 1,328 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
99.47%
Sample size: 12,837 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
German Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| German in the Russian language | ||
| Герман | german | - |
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