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Jaime
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English
Alternative forms
en Jamie
Pronunciation
en /haɪmeɪ/
Proper noun
s
en unisex.
en male Spanish from the Spanish form of James.
en 1971 Charles Willeford The Burnt Orange Heresy 220 They call you "Jim", don't they?' 'No,' I replied, hiding my irritation. 'I prefer James. My father named me Jaime, but no one ever seemed to pronounce it right, so I changed it to James. Not legally,' I added.
en Ryan Prior The extrovert’s guide to social distancing w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/extrovert-social-distancing-wellness 2020-03-23 “We are social beings,” Jaime Blandino, a clinical psychologist in Decatur, Georgia, told CNN. “My most extroverted clients are having the hardest time.” https://web.archive.org/web/20251008010315/https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/extrovert-social-distancing-wellness 8 October 2025
en female Jamie.
en 2004 Kelley Armstrong Industrial Magic 134 A few minutes later, Jaime stood and rubbed her shoulders. "You okay?" I asked. She made a noncommittal noise
en Jamie.
Derived terms
en Braime
See also
en James Jamie Jimmi Jimmie Jimmy Jim
References
U.S. Social Security Administration, accessed on December 10th, 2010: The first name Jaime was included in the top 1000 male names in 1942-2009, with a frequency never exceeding 0.1 %, and in the top 1000 female names in 1959, 1961-63, and 1965-2004, with a peak of 0.5 % in 1976. The data includes Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens.
Anagrams
en aeijm Jamie Mejia
Portuguese
Alternative forms
pt Jayme mostly archaic
Etymology
pt :inh roa-opt:Jayme<id:James> James ++ pt Iago Jacó Tiago.
Cognate with gl Xaime.
Pronunciation
pt ajmi ajmɨ 2
pt Jai me
Proper noun
m
pt male James
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :inh osp:Jayme<id:James> James
A Spanish form of Jacob, from es osp Jayme, from es la-lat Iacomus, dialectal variant of la Iacobus, from es grc Ἰάκωβος, from grc Ἰακώβ, from es hbo יַעֲקֹב Yaʿăqōḇ (Jacob). Cf. fr James, ca Jaume, oc Jacme. The name Iacobus also gave in Spanish es Yago 1 and es Santiago 1 (Saint James), from es la sanctus Sanctus holy, saint la Iacobus James. The claimed relationship to the name es Diego is a folk etymology, misinterpreting es San Diego as a variant of es Santiago.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
m
es male James
Related terms
es Jacobo
Anagrams
es Mejía