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Sorry, but I'm afraid this name sounds too much like the name of a European language for everyday usage.
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German Kim (Russian: Герман Ким) is Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally recognized scholar of the Koryo-saram (ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet countries).
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This name is also used in Germany, where it is both the German form of Germanus as well as the German form of the ancient Germanic given name Gereman, which consists of the Germanic elements 'ger' meaning "spear" and 'man' meaning "man".
The name German is currently rare in Germany, but it was more common in older times (i.e. at least before World War II).
A variant spelling of the name is Germann, which was used until at least the 18th century, as it was borne by the German clergyman and theologian Germann August Ellrod (1709-1760). It has since become obsolete and now only survives as a patronymic surname.
Sources used:
- https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/German (in English)
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_(Vorname) (in German; also features a list of bearers, 9 of which are Germans)
- see the entry for Gereman on pages 582 and 583 of "Altdeutsches Namenbuch" (1900) written by Ernst Förstemann: https://archive.org/details/altdeutschesnam00seelgoog/page/n303/mode/2up (in German)
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Vornamen_germanischer_Herkunft#G (in German)
- Germann August Ellrod (1709-1760): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germann_August_Ellrod (in German)
- (general): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=German&last=&search=Zoeken
- https://de.linkedin.com/pub/dir/German/+/de-0-Duitsland (lists only bearers living in Germany)
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The name German is currently rare in Germany, but it was more common in older times (i.e. at least before World War II).
A variant spelling of the name is Germann, which was used until at least the 18th century, as it was borne by the German clergyman and theologian Germann August Ellrod (1709-1760). It has since become obsolete and now only survives as a patronymic surname.
Sources used:
- https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/German (in English)
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_(Vorname) (in German; also features a list of bearers, 9 of which are Germans)
- see the entry for Gereman on pages 582 and 583 of "Altdeutsches Namenbuch" (1900) written by Ernst Förstemann: https://archive.org/details/altdeutschesnam00seelgoog/page/n303/mode/2up (in German)
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Vornamen_germanischer_Herkunft#G (in German)
- Germann August Ellrod (1709-1760): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germann_August_Ellrod (in German)
- (general): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=German&last=&search=Zoeken
- https://de.linkedin.com/pub/dir/German/+/de-0-Duitsland (lists only bearers living in Germany)
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Also Gascon, Provençal and Languedocian: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=290 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans
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Christian actually sounds somewhat like a name. German as a name just sounds flat-out stupid.
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This name is also used in English speaking countries like the US.
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Pronounced GEHR-man in Polish.
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Also the Polish form of Germanus: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_(imi%C4%99)
https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/German
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https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/German
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What's next, Dutch? English? Russian? Lebanese?
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I’m not German.
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The name German was given to 154 boys born in the US in 2015.
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I like this name but I wouldn't use it, but I don't get what's so ridiculous about it looking like the word German, when people name their sons "Christian" all the time and no one says anything, and that name bugs me.
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Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on August 6, 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1.
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This is the Russian form of Herman. Many Russian Germans have this name.
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'Hi, I'm German.'
'Well that is obvious (by the accent). So what's your name then?'
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'Well that is obvious (by the accent). So what's your name then?'
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This name is stupid. You're naming the kid after an ethnic group!
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Technically, you are not naming your child AFTER an ethnic group, he just happens to share a name with one. Sorry, those sorts of things bug me.
I think I prefer this to Herman. It's interesting.
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I think I prefer this to Herman. It's interesting.
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The G in German is not pronounced like the adjective German, but rather like in the word Grammar.
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"German" can also derive from the 2 words "ger" meaning "spear" and "man" meaning "man" or "people". So "German" means either "man with a spear" or "the people with spears" which is most likely correct, considering the hunting habits of former times.
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