Jaimie
Feminine · “one who follows at the heel”
Jaimie is given to both — 9,549 girls and 904 boys since 1880. See Jaimie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Jaimie is a Spanish man's spelling wearing an English girl's ending. Jaime is how Spanish writes James, and it has been a man's name in Spain for eight hundred years. The -ie added on the end is the English diminutive that turns Jam into Jamie. Put together they make a name that is Spanish on paper, English in the mouth, and given here almost entirely to girls.
How old is the name Jaimie?
Jaimie first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Jaimie alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 9,300 people named Jaimie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaimie most popular?
Jaimie peaked in 1987, reaching #352 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 14,590 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Yaakov to Jaimie
The story of Jaimie
Spanish kept the m: Iacomus became Jaime, and the kings of Aragon carried it, which fixed it as a man's name across the Spanish-speaking world. English kept the m too but ended up at James, and made Jamie as the Scottish pet form. Those two names sat in separate countries doing separate jobs until American naming put them in the same pool. From the middle of the twentieth century Jamie moved decisively toward girls in the United States, taking its spellings with it, and Jaimie is one of the results — the Spanish letters carrying the English sound and the American sex. It is a small collision, and a completely typical one.
Meaningscholars disagree
one who follows at the heel
James and Jaime are both Jacob, Hebrew Yaakov, and the traditional reading connects it to the word for a heel — the story in Genesis has one twin born holding the other's. Whether that is the real etymology or a story attached to explain the name afterward is genuinely argued; an alternative reading takes it as a shortening of a longer name meaning may God protect. Neither has won. The path from Yaakov to Jaime runs through Latin Iacobus, which softened to Iacomus in late Latin, and it is that m that gives James, Jaime and Giacomo their shape.
How the name formed
- Yaakov
- Iacobus
- Jaime
- Jamie
- Jaimie
Related forms: Jaime · Jaume · Giacomo · Jaime · Jamie
Pronouncing Jaimie
JAY-mee
JAY-mee in English, two syllables, stress at the front. Spanish says its own Jaime quite differently — HIGH-meh — and a Spanish-speaking reader meeting this spelling will reach for that first. The two sayings belong to two different names that happen to share most of their letters.
Nicknames for Jaimie
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
- 1946
- Most girls named
- 1988601 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #352reached in 1987
- Change vs 2023
- −54.5%5 in 2025, from 11
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.
Jaimie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jaime in Spanish — related form
- Jaume in Catalan — related form
- Giacomo in Italian — related form
- Jaime in Portuguese — related form
- Jamie in Scots — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Jaimies among us
people named Jaimie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Jaimie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jaimie
- #14942
- Jaimie on the 2025 chart
- #935
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jaimie went to 5 girls in 2025, but Jaymie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 935th most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,007 places above the chart.
- Jaymie20
- Jaimie5
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Jaimie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Corrine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaimie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Corrine climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Corrine's path sketches the road Jaimie is walking now.
Jaimie 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
Jaimie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaimie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The sound is familiar everywhere in the English-speaking world and needs no introduction.
- It works for either child, which is unusual in a name that has moved as decisively toward girls as this one has.
- Jay is a ready short form that carries none of the spelling difficulty.
- Jamie is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected toward it constantly, in speech and on every form.
- Spanish speakers will read it as the man's name and say HIGH-meh, which is not a mistake on their part but is a different name.
- This spelling goes to boys as well, though very rarely, so a boy named Jaimie will be read as a girl on paper more often than not.
Nobody names a baby alone.
Put Jaimie to the vote.
Add it to a family vote or a couple’s swipe deck — the other person gets one card, a simple answer and room to say why. No app, no account for them.
Only the people you invite can see your list.
Already decided on Jaimie? Hide it among decoys and let them guess.
What they receive
Someone added a name to your list
Jaimie
Feminine · #14942 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jaimies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,300 people named Jaimie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jaimie?
- Jaimie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jaymie is the more common one — 20 births in 2025 against 5 for Jaimie.
- How popular is the name Jaimie in 2025?
- Jaimie ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaimie?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Jaimie — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaimie with classmates?
- Jaimie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jaimie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Hester#14942 · Lyda#14942 · Zula#14942 · Zona#14942 · Ula#14942 · Belva#14942 · Lucetta#14942 · Leala#14942
Looking for what else is popular rather than what resembles Jaimie? See the current top 100.
Choosing between Jaimie and another name?
See them side by side — full stats, history and a gentle verdict.
Compare side by sideIn a hurry? Just pick a winner — one tap, no sign-up, and you see how everyone else voted.
Weighing a whole shortlist? Add the rest in the builder, or settle it with a bracket.
Cast your vote
Which one would you pick?
Your gut first, the numbers after — the split shows once you pick.
US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
No advertising trackers and no data sellinghow we handle your dataindependent and founder-run, about Name Battle