Germanas Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Arms linked to German and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Ancestors listed as Germanas are often found as German a generation earlier. The family name meaning is “Brother”, the same as for German.

The ending -as in Germanas marks an English derivative of the root behind German. Other spellings include Germano, Germain and Jerman.