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Germanus

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latin Germanus = 'German' [1]

The tribal name of the Germans is of uncertain meaning.

Some theories include:

  • Gaulish 'noisy one'
  • Old Irish garim = 'to shout'
  • Old Irish gair = 'neighbour' + Old Irish maon = 'people'
  • Latin germanus = 'of brothers and sisters, sibling' [1]

(See also -anus)

2) Latinised form of Germann (see also -us)

Related Names

Germain ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 French
German ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Germanus ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish

For female forms see Germana, Germania

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Germanus
Genitive: Germanuksen
Partitive: Germanusta
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Germanus
Genitive: Germanus' / Germanus

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

31 July

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

31 July

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 27 people were named Germanus (percentage of first or only given name: 4 %) [2]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[3]
n.a.
 25 0 0
n.a.
 25
Sweden Sweden[4]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Germanus.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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