Jamie

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Jamie is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Ireland it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Originally a pet form of James; chiefly associated with Scotland, now sometimes independent in Ireland.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland1 in 388◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 666
  • AUAustralia1 in 735

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈473K ●

across 11 countries

#708 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
561 ●

3.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 265 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

JamieLatin · English●3.7M records
박지민Hangul · Korean●8 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jaimee in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, CR Costa Rica and 3 more and Jaime in ES Spain, EC Ecuador.

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●

Originally a pet form of James; chiefly associated with Scotland, now sometimes independent in Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jamie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#110310,416213K rec.—59Jamie291
US United States#163239,2552.6M rec.1 in 1.4K239KJamie561
AU Australia#135157,718109K rec.—103Jamie287
ES Spain—95,004△4.6K rec.1 in 52696KJaime107
CA Canada#16482,58968K rec.—13Jamie246
BR Brazil—65,865△89 rec.1 in 3.2K82KJaimee7
EC Ecuador—63,698△152 rec.1 in 26564KJaime23
IE Ireland#4824,0547.3K rec.—271Jamie130
PH Philippines—16,58612K rec.——Jamie125
IT Italy#46014,26214K rec.—listedJamie70
NZ New Zealand#709,5937.1K rec.—20Jamie135
SG Singapore#727,9927.7K rec.——Jamie123

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.7M82%
  • 276K6%
  • Spanish133K3%
  • German38K1%
  • French27K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,660,56282%
276,0386%
Spanish133,1563%
German38,1701%
French27,4071%

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◐

Jamie is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name42K records spelled Jamie7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: German, English, Spanish

    Also written Jaemie, Jämie

  • French given name31K records spelled Jamie5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Jamîe, Jàmie, Jâmîê

  • Hindi given name23K records spelled Jamie5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Jamié

  • Polish given name13K records spelled Jamie5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Jåmïê, Jåmįē

88 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●

Jamie 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 Originally a male pet form of James and still so used, especially in Scotland and Northumberland. In North America it is now widely used as a girl’s name, a feminine equivalent of James. Variants: Jamey; Jamee, Jami (2) only.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Swedish, Jamie är en engelsk smekform av → James (se även → Jakob). Det används, särskilt i USA, även som ett motsvarande kvinnonamn till James. Ett par kända namnbärare är den amerikanska skådespelerskan Jamie Lee Curtis (f. 1958) och den engelske tv-kocken Jamie (egentligen James) Oliver (f. 1975).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Forme anglaise de Jacques, du hébreu Ya‘aqov (« talon » ou « supplanteur »).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Diminutif anglais de James, issu du latin Iacobus, hébreu Ya‘aqov.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Forme écossaise de James, emprunté à Jacques; d’origine hébraïque.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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●

05K10K15K19001950200013K · 1977

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Jamie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18845
18875
18885
189012
189111
189210
18939
18949
189510
18968
18979
189811
189914
190020
190120
190215
19039
190411
190523
190616
190715
190815
190927
191016
191115
191234
191336
191433
191559
191655
191745
191864
191973
192064
192160
192263
192371
192454
192558
192677
192756
192858
192947
193056
193168
193268
193349
193452
193555
193649
193758
193872
193962
194074
194181
1942120
1943154
1944122
1945226
1946337
1947327
1948386
1949401
1950468
1951545
1952691
1953897
1954987
19551,145
19561,029
19571,276
19581,312
19591,824
19602,202
19612,337
19622,786
19632,550
19642,314
19652,748
19662,656
19672,511
19682,688
19692,902
19703,202
19713,231
19723,680
19733,913
19744,086
19754,573
197612,539
197712,895
197810,982
197912,156
198011,529
198110,982
198211,039
198311,025
19849,761
198511,038
19869,234
19877,916
19887,187
19896,845
19906,509
19915,781
19924,702
19934,254
19943,982
19953,770
19963,599
19973,241
19983,066
19992,537
20002,156
20011,945
20021,970
20031,924
20041,726
20051,598
20061,413
20071,397
20081,308
20091,067
2010841
2011715
2012719
2013610
2014635
2015639
2016629
2017498
2018489
2019534
2020396
2021443
2022449
2023473
2024455
2025508

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 139 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Jamie Lee Curtis, b. 1958Jamie Foxx, b. 1967Jamie Oliver, b. 1975Jamie Carragher, b. 1978Jamie Draven, b. 1979Jamie-Lynn Sigler, b. 1981Jamie Chung, b. 1983Jamie Bell, b. 1986Jamie Campbell Bower, b. 1988Jamie Lynn Spears, b. 1991

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●

Attested in 98 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Jamie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020239K#163
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202073K#163
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.9K#1,088
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.5K#1,214
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.4K#958
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.4K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.1K#312
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024707#352
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—686#2,057
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010549#39,960
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025508—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000492#41,657

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,519 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jamie?
We estimate roughly 473 thousand people bear Jamie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Jamie have the most bearers?
Jamie is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled jamie.
Where is Jamie most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jamie is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 265 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Jamie compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Jamie is the 110th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Jamie a male or female name?
Jamie 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 Jamie mean?
Recorded meaning: Originally a pet form of James; chiefly associated with Scotland, now sometimes independent in Ireland.
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jamie” — the 110th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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