The name Jermaine is an American variant of the French name Germain. This originated from the Latin byname Germanus meaning ‘brother’. It is not clear, how the term ‘germani’ for Germanic tribes is connected to this word.
Jermaine is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Jermaine isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jermaine ranks 795. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Jermaine. In the entire USA, approximately 39,593 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jermaine. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Jermaine is an American variant of the French name Germain. This originated from the Latin byname Germanus meaning ‘brother’. It is not clear, how the term ‘germani’ for Germanic tribes is connected to this word.
This name rapidly increased in... popularity in the early 1970s as a result of the fame of Jermaine Jackson, a member of 'The Jackson 5'.
Jermaine is a quite familiar phenomenon. Before 1900, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. It took a while, but then, unexpectedly, Jermaine cried out for attention, reaching rank 121 in 1973. So, schoolkids of the late 19th century probably didn't have classmates named Jermaine and it has never reached the top 100 list in our statistics, but for a while it became more and more fashionable in the last century, which makes Jermaine really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jermaine was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
154 babies were named Jermaine in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,048,221 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Jermaine ranked 1,159 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which first records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With eight letters, the name Jermaine is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jermaine and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jermaine, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Rocket
Mouse
Apple
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jermaine
Jermaine
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
R
M
A
I
N
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
R
M
A
I
N
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jermaine sounds like this:
