Jaime

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Boy · Hebrew, through Latin

Jaime

Say it: HAI-meh

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Meaning

From Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Iacobus (James, Hebrew Ya'aqov).

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

A fashion of the 1970s

In the United States

119,014 babies given this name since 1916
At its height in 1976, about 1 in 1,100 boys
546 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Spanish Catalan Portuguese

The family of the name

Catalan	Jaume
Portuguese	Jaime
Galician	Xaime

Famous bearers

James I the Conqueror (Jaume I), king of Aragon

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Where this comes from

Royal and noble genealogies
National birth statistics of European countries source
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.