Jermaine

English

Etymology

Rare variant of Germain.

Proper noun

Jermaine

  1. A male given name from Latin.
    • 2008, Jermaine Dupri, Samantha Marshall, Young, Rich, and Dangerous: The Making of a Music Mogul, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:
      My father decided to call me Jermaine, after Jermaine Jackson, thinking it would go well with his own name, Michael, and bring to mind some association with the Jackson Five.
    • 2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2025:
      Born on a US military base, the son of a US citizen father serving in the Army, Jermaine Thomas never considered he might not be American.