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Jermaine

Jermaine proper noun: a male given name from Latin.

Proper noun

Jermaine

  1. A male given name from Latin.
    • 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
    • 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...

Origin of Jermaine

Rare variant of Germain.

Questions about Jermaine

What does Jermaine mean?
Jermaine means a male given name from Latin.
What part of speech is Jermaine?
Jermaine is a proper noun.

Words near Jermaine in the dictionary

  1. jerky
  2. jerky up
  3. jerkying
  4. jerkying up
  5. Jermain
  6. Jermaine
  7. Jermann
  8. Jermantown
  9. Jermuk
  10. Jermyn
  11. Jernigan

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