Germana
Fewer than ten women in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stay with you. The name comes from the Latin germanus, a full brother by blood, turned feminine: a sister of the same parents.
Germana Pronunciation
Germana is pronounced ger-MAH-nah (/gɛrˈmana/).
What Germana means
Where Germana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Germana grows from the Latin germanus, a word for a full brother, one born of the same parents rather than a half sibling. The feminine form turns that into a sister of the same blood. The same root gave Spanish hermano and hermana, the ordinary words for brother and sister. Polish keeps the meaning close: rodzony and spokrewniony, kin by birth.
In Italy the name belongs to Santa Germana Cousin, a shepherd girl from Pibrac near Toulouse. She died young in 1601, and Rome canonized her in 1867. Her feast falls on 15 June. The name has stayed largely Italian in the centuries since.
Germana grew no diminutive and no variant of its own. It stays as it began. A sister named for shared blood, rodzony.
When Germana celebrates name day
Germana appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 19 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Germana
1 in 3757306 women in Poland is named Germana. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #22751 among female names.
Germana as a middle name
Germana is a first name for 6 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4109th, between Genoveva (4) and Gesika (4).
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#4107 Genovefa4
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#4108 Genoveva4
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#4109 Germana4
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#4110 Gesika4
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#4111 Giertruda4