Jaymee
Feminine · “Hebrew Yaakov”
Jaymee is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 2,207 girls against 23 boys since 1880.
The Jacobites are named after James. Jacobus is the Latin form, so the risings of 1715 and 1745 carry the king's name in a language he did not speak, and the adjective looks nothing like the name it comes from.
How old is the name Jaymee?
Jaymee first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Jaymee alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 2,200 people named Jaymee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaymee most popular?
Jaymee peaked in 1992, reaching #1818 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 7,639 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yaakov to Jaymee
The story of Jaymee
James VII of Scotland and II of England was deposed in 1688, and his supporters were called Jacobites, from Jacobus, the Latin form of his name used in official documents and on coinage. The label covered his cause for nearly sixty years, through the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745, and it survives in Jacobite as a term of art for the whole movement, its music and its glassware. Nothing in the word resembles James, because Latin took the second of the two forms that developed from the Hebrew name, and English took the other. The same Latin form gives the Jacobean period, named for James I, and the Jacobin club of the French Revolution, which is named instead for a Dominican convent in Paris dedicated to Saint Jacques.
Meaning
Hebrew Yaakov, from aqev, the heel
Jaymee is a respelling of Jamie, the Scottish diminutive of James, from Latin Iacomus, a variant of Iacobus, from Hebrew Yaakov. The -ie ending is the Scots diminutive. In Scotland Jamie is a man's name; in American use the spelling is largely female. The peak of this spelling is 1992.
How the name formed
- Yaakov
- Iacomus
- James
- Jamie
- Jaymee
Related forms: Jamie · Jamie · Jaimie
Pronouncing Jaymee
JAY-mee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Jaymee, Jamie, Jaimie and Jaymie are homophones with several spellings.
Nicknames for Jaymee
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
- 199279 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1818reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%10 in 2025, from 15
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.
Jaymee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jamie in English — spelling variant
- Jamie in Scots — related form
- Jaimie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jaymees among us
people named Jaymee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Jaymee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jaymee
- #9457
- Jaymee on the 2025 chart
- #895
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jaymee went to 10 girls in 2025, but Jaime, Jayme and Jaimee are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 65, which makes it the 895th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,562 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Jaymee 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 Adelyne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaymee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Adelyne climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Adelyne's path sketches the road Jaymee is walking now.
Jaymee 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
Jaymee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaymee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jay works as a short form and is a name in its own right.
- The sound is completely familiar.
- Two syllables with a clear first-syllable stress.
- Jamie is far commoner and is unisex.
- Several spellings compete for the same sound.
- In Scotland it is a man's name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaymees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Jaymee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jaymee?
- Jaymee is one of 4 recorded spellings. Jaime is the more common one — 35 births in 2025 against 10 for Jaymee.
- How popular is the name Jaymee in 2025?
- Jaymee ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaymee?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Jaymee — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaymee with classmates?
- Jaymee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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