Jerman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the male personal name Germain; (ii) person from Germany, or someone with commercial or other dealings with Germany
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ˈdʒɝmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jerman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 194K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 278K
- SISlovenia1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,672 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) from the male personal name Germain; (ii) person from Germany, or someone with commercial or other dealings with Germany.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jerman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | 1,672 | 1 in 1.3K | 1.7K | Jerman | 17 |
| US United States | 1,196 | 1 in 278K | 1.3K | Jerman | 234 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Jerman | 80 |
| HR Croatia | 227 | 1 in 19K | 227 | — | 1 |
| IN India | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | — | Jerman | 10 |
| CZ Czechia | 152 | 1 in 70K | 152 | — | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Jerman | 2 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 4 |
1,672 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jerman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
probably from a medieval form of the personal name Herman, from German Hermann.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Russian, var of Imram.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Indonesian, Germany (a country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lindsey Jermanb. 1915GBEnglish cricketer (1915-1996)
- Drago Jermanb. 1919SISlovenian military officer
- Wilson Roosevelt Jermanb. 1929USWhite House butler (1929-2020)
- Vida Jermanb. 1939HRCroatian actress and Esperantist (1939–2011)
- Borka Jerman Blažičb. 1947SISlovenian internet pioneer
- Marcos Luis Jermanb. 1957ARSlovenian cross-country skier
- Metka Jermanb. 1963SISlovenian alpine skier
- Andrej Jermanb. 1978SISlovenian alpine skier
- Greg Jermanb. 1979USAmerican football player
- Žiga Jermanb. 1998SISlovenian cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.7K | #53 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,146 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,750 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 227 | #3,647 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 206 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 152 | #11,143 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 151 | #6,370 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,837 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jerman mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the male personal name Germain; (ii) person from Germany, or someone with commercial or other dealings with Germany. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Jerman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɝmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jerman have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Jerman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jerman.
- Where is Jerman most common?
- Jerman is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jerman?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,672 people named Jerman, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jermanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jerman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.