Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Jermain isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jermain through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,010
- 2,010 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 104 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,262 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −73%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,262 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 104 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,488 as a first name in 2020; 276 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jermain’s family of names
Jermain has a related form in Jermaine. In English usage, Jermain has a related form in Germain.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Jermain
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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