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.
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.