Germain Name Meaning
[and most Germains still cannot carry a tune]
French: A French family name made popular by a 5th-century saint, bishop of Auxerre.
It derives from Latin Germanus ‘brother’, ‘cousin’. In Italian it was enhanced to mean ‘brother (in God)’.
The feminine form, Germaine, is associated with a late 16th-century saint from Provençal, the daughter of a poor farmer, who was canonized in 1867.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
