Meanings
proper noun
- A male given name from Latin.
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.
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, archived from the original on 10 Jul 20251 more example
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.
2008, Jermaine Dupri, Samantha Marshall, Young, Rich, and Dangerous: The Making of a Music Mogul, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 11
Origin
Rare variant of Germain.
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APA
Jermaine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jermaine
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“Jermaine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jermaine. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Jermaine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jermaine.
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