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Hermann
Hermann Hermann carries a deeply Teutonic patriarchal weight — it is simultaneously the name of a Germanic national hero and one of the most common bourgeois given names of 19th and early 20th-century Germany. Characters named Hermann range from commanding warlord figures to the quintessential solid German burgher. The name suits protagonists of sweeping historical novels as well as intimate domestic fiction set in the German-speaking world.
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