Jaime
Masculine · “From Hebrew Ya'aqov”
Jaime is given to both — 71,491 boys and 50,067 girls since 1880. See Jaime as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Jaime is the Spanish road out of Latin Iacobus — the same root that gave English James, French Jacques and Italian Giacomo. It has been written this way since the Middle Ages, carried by the medieval kings of Aragon, and it crossed the Atlantic with Spanish long before it ever appeared on an American chart. Two syllables in Spanish, two in English, and both mouths already know how to hold it.
How old is the name Jaime?
Jaime first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Jaime alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 66,000 people named Jaime are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaime most popular?
Jaime peaked in 1980, reaching #167 nationally. Today it ranks #657, 490 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ya'aqov to Jaime
The story of Jaime
The name begins as Hebrew Ya'aqov, becomes Iakobos in the Greek of the New Testament, then Iacobus in Latin. In late spoken Latin the b softened toward m — Iacomus — and that variant is the ancestor of Jaime, Jaume, Giacomo and Jacques, while the older Iacobus line gave Spanish Santiago and Diego and English Jacob. Jaime became the standard Spanish form and was borne by kings of Aragon in the thirteenth century, one of whom is remembered as the Conqueror. It reached the United States mainly through Spanish-speaking families, and it is still strongest in the states where that history is deepest — Texas, California, Florida.
Meaningscholars disagree
From Hebrew Ya'aqov, read either as "holder of the heel / supplanter" or "may God protect"
The Hebrew name Ya'aqov is linked in Genesis to 'aqev, "heel" — Jacob grasping his twin's heel at birth — which gives the traditional reading "supplanter". Semitic scholarship also reads it as a shortened sentence-name meaning roughly "may God protect". Both readings are serious and both are old; neither has pushed the other out.
How the name formed
- Ya'aqov
- Iakobos
- Iacobus
- Iacomus
- Jaime
Related forms: Jaume · Jaime · James · Jacques · Giacomo · Santiago
Pronouncing Jaime
HIGH-meh (Spanish) or JAY-mee (English)
In Spanish the J is a breathy H and the final E is sounded: HIGH-meh. Many English speakers default to JAY-mee, treating it as a spelling of Jamie. Both are in real use in the US, so a bearer usually ends up choosing which one to answer to.
Nicknames for Jaime
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1916
- Most boys named
- 19921,428 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #167reached in 1980
- Change vs 2023
- −14.6%420 in 2025, from 492
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jaime in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jaume in Catalan — same name
- Jaime in Portuguese — same name
- James in English — related form
- Jacques in French — related form
- Giacomo in Italian — related form
- Santiago in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Jaimes among us
people named Jaime are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 4,067 born in 2025 was named Jaime
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Gregg test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaime's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gregg climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gregg's path sketches the road Jaime is walking now.
Jaime sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jaime is headed
Jaime should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jaime beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaime in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two established pronunciations aside, the spelling itself is familiar to both English and Spanish readers — few people will ask how to write it.
- Sits in one of the longest documented name lines in the world, running from biblical Hebrew through Greek and Latin into modern Spanish.
- Has close counterparts in most European languages — James, Jacques, Giacomo, Jaume — so it travels without being translated away.
- Comes with a ready-made affectionate form, Jaimito, that Spanish speakers use automatically.
- The pronunciation genuinely splits: HIGH-meh in Spanish, JAY-mee in much of American English. Neither is wrong, but a Jaime in a mixed environment will correct people, or answer to both.
- In US records this spelling has also been given to girls, as a variant of Jamie, so paperwork and strangers occasionally assume a girl. Worth knowing, though the Spanish masculine use is centuries older and far better established.
- It is easing back from the level it once reached, which means grown Jaimes are more common than small ones — a classroom is unlikely to hold two.
- Expect Jamie and Jayme as recurring misspellings, especially in English-language settings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaimes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 66,000 people named Jaime are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jaime in 2025?
- Jaime ranks #657 among US boy names in 2025, with 420 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaime?
- About 1 in every 4,067 US boys born in 2025 was named Jaime — 420 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaime with classmates?
- Jaime will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jaime
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