Meaning Brotherly, from German Gender Male Origin Latin Germain as a boy's name (also used as girl's name Germain), is pronounced jer-MAYN. It is of Latin and French origin, and the meaning of Germain is "brotherly; from Germany". Tags Place Celebrity Modern Add new comment Your name Comment About text formats Plain text No HTML tags allowed. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically. Leave this field blank Fav this