Meaning not yet researched.
German: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 112 in 2025. Its best rank was #582 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #582 in 1991; #1,541 in 2025. Every baby recorded as German in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,541 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #582.
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German: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 112 boys in 2025. Peak: #582 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 304 (1991).
In 2025, 112 US boys were named German, making it the 1,541st most common boys’ name of the year, up 112 places from #1,653 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 102 boys named German in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #582, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 304. For comparison, it was #1,193 in 2015 and #2,368 in 1950.
Social Security card records list German in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 10,295 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,493 babies named German.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,313 US boys were named German; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 171. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,251 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, German ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #649 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Herman (136,772 babies since 1880) and Germaine (10,274 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Germane, Germon and Germayne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Germane (12), Germon (6), Germayne (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for German in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 10 | #649 | #933 |
| California | 23 | #973 | #783 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,047 | #616 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,071 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,929 | #1,048 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 112 | #1,541 |
| 2024 | — | — | 102 | #1,653 |
| 2023 | — | — | 123 | #1,467 |
| 2022 | — | — | 124 | #1,460 |
| 2021 | — | — | 115 | #1,532 |
| 2020 | — | — | 121 | #1,429 |
| 2019 | — | — | 132 | #1,357 |
| 2018 | — | — | 161 | #1,183 |
| 2017 | — | — | 152 | #1,209 |
| 2016 | — | — | 171 | #1,130 |
| 2015 | — | — | 155 | #1,193 |
| 2014 | — | — | 161 | #1,167 |
| 2013 | — | — | 150 | #1,194 |
| 2012 | — | — | 166 | #1,114 |
| 2011 | — | — | 150 | #1,182 |
| 2010 | — | — | 187 | #1,041 |
| 2009 | — | — | 215 | #945 |
| 2008 | — | — | 247 | #862 |
| 2007 | — | — | 215 | #920 |
| 2006 | — | — | 237 | #849 |
| 2005 | — | — | 251 | #780 |
| 2004 | — | — | 216 | #825 |
| 2003 | — | — | 266 | #707 |
| 2002 | — | — | 226 | #763 |
| 2001 | — | — | 274 | #664 |
| 2000 | — | — | 255 | #692 |
| 1999 | — | — | 217 | #743 |
| 1998 | — | — | 210 | #761 |
| 1997 | — | — | 251 | #654 |
| 1996 | — | — | 258 | #649 |
| 1995 | — | — | 246 | #670 |
| 1994 | — | — | 252 | #656 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,265 | 238 | #667 |
| 1992 | — | — | 243 | #665 |
| 1991 | — | — | 304 | #582 |
| 1990 | — | — | 269 | #614 |
| 1989 | — | — | 269 | #595 |
| 1988 | — | — | 147 | #779 |
| 1987 | — | — | 120 | #854 |
| 1986 | — | — | 105 | #889 |
| 1985 | — | — | 120 | #812 |
| 1984 | — | — | 117 | #808 |
| 1983 | — | — | 125 | #781 |
| 1982 | — | — | 116 | #823 |
| 1981 | — | — | 123 | #785 |
| 1980 | — | — | 107 | #858 |
| 1979 | — | — | 105 | #844 |
| 1978 | — | — | 88 | #924 |
| 1977 | — | — | 87 | #910 |
| 1976 | — | — | 77 | #952 |
| 1975 | — | — | 89 | #881 |
| 1974 | — | — | 71 | #971 |
| 1973 | — | — | 75 | #932 |
| 1972 | — | — | 64 | #1,010 |
| 1971 | — | — | 52 | #1,140 |
| 1970 | — | — | 58 | #1,073 |
| 1969 | — | — | 54 | #1,056 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,295 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,421 |
| 1966 | — | — | 56 | #976 |
| 1965 | — | — | 45 | #1,116 |
| 1964 | — | — | 32 | #1,391 |
| 1963 | — | — | 41 | #1,217 |
| 1962 | — | — | 23 | #1,688 |
| 1961 | — | — | 27 | #1,558 |
| 1960 | — | — | 29 | #1,499 |
| 1959 | — | — | 23 | #1,682 |
| 1958 | — | — | 36 | #1,290 |
| 1957 | — | — | 21 | #1,767 |
| 1956 | — | — | 32 | #1,367 |
| 1955 | — | — | 22 | #1,657 |
| 1954 | — | — | 23 | #1,608 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #1,993 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,889 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,421 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,368 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,118 |
| 1948 | — | — | 13 | #2,154 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,290 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #1,978 |
| 1945 | — | — | 11 | #2,171 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #2,958 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,626 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,792 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,546 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,554 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,693 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,723 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,293 |
| 1936 | — | — | 13 | #1,993 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,793 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,105 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,615 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,714 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,734 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,778 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,034 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,564 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,589 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,342 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,824 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,895 |
| 1923 | — | — | 14 | #2,267 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,389 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,543 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,513 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,964 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,214 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,340 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,724 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,821 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,164 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,856 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,839 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,684 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,113 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,278 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #996 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).