Jaime

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jaime is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name1.5M records spelled Jaime30 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Jaimé, J'Aime, Jáímé, Jaimę, Jäime

• a separate given name182K records spelled Jaime4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Jaíme, Jaimé, Jaïmé

• Indonesian given name31K records spelled Jaime4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Indonesia, Peru

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written J'Aime, Jaïme

• French given name30K records spelled Jaime16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Peru

  Also written J'Aime, Jaïme, Jaimé, Jaïmé, J'Ãïmę

• Swahili given name8.6K records spelled Jaime6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Peru

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

  Also written J'Aime

• English given name3.7K records spelled Jaime87 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

  Languages: English, Arabic, Dutch

  Also written Jamie, Jaimee, Jaimie, Jamey, Jamee

79 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jaime is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• ,2 This is the Spanish form of James, but in the United States and Canada it has in recent years come to be used also as a girl’s name, apparently a respelling of the girl’s name Jamie.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Spanish, from the personal name Jaime, Spanish equivalent of James.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Spanish form of }James (see main dictionary).

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English James

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Se Jakob.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Infante Jaime, Duke of Segoviab. 1908ESpretender to the throne of Spain from 1941 to 1969 and legitimist pretender to the thrones of France and of Navarre from 1941 to 1975
• Jaime Sánchezb. 1938USactor
• Jaime Camilb. 1974MXMexican actor (born 1973)
• Jaime Murrayb. 1976GBEnglish actress
• Jaime Presslyb. 1977USAmerican actress, model, and producer
• Iván Kaviedes Toaquizab. 1977ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian footballer
• Jaime Ray Newmanb. 1978USAmerican actress
• Jaime Kingb. 1979USAmerican actress and model
• Jaime Alguersuarib. 1990ESSpanish racing driver
• Jaime Lorenteb. 1991ESSpanish actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,355 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jaime?

We estimate roughly 342 thousand people bear Jaime (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Jaime have the most bearers?

Jaime is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled jaime.

Where is Jaime most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaime is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 265 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

How common is Jaime compared with other names?

In Mexico, Jaime is the 82nd most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

Is Jaime a male or female name?

Jaime is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Jaime mean?

Recorded meaning: From Hebrew Ya'aqob via Greek and Latin Jacobus/Jacomus; Spanish form related to James.