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Jaime

masculine

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Jaime covers two distinct names sharing one spelling. Jaime-1 is the Spanish and Portuguese masculine form of James (from Late Latin Iacomus/Iacobus, from Hebrew Ya'aqov/Jacob). Jaime-2 is an English feminine variant spelling of Jamie (itself a Scots diminutive of James), popularized by the 1970s TV character Jaime Sommers. This project's SSA rank for this profile is boys #657, corresponding to the Jaime-1 lane; this profile keeps both lanes distinct rather than merging their histories.

Why it works

  • English speakers will almost certainly pronounce it correctly on the first try
  • spelling is short and predictable — rarely needs repeating

What to know

pronunciation varies somewhat by language — see "How it travels" for the specifics

Popularity

Uncommon — #657 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Origin & usage

Jaime is genuinely two distinct names sharing one spelling: Jaime-1 is the ordinary Spanish and Portuguese masculine form of James, widely used across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world; Jaime-2 is an English feminine variant spelling of Jamie, popularized in the US by the 1976-1978 TV series The Bionic Woman's character Jaime Sommers. This project's SSA assignment for this profile is boys #657, which corresponds to the Jaime-1 lane.

Documented origin: Jaime covers two distinct names sharing one spelling. Jaime-1 is the Spanish and Portuguese masculine form of James (from Late Latin Iacomus/Iacobus, from Hebrew Ya'aqov/Jacob). Jaime-2 is an English feminine variant spelling of Jamie (itself a Scots diminutive of James), popularized by the 1970s TV character Jaime Sommers. This project's SSA rank for this profile is boys #657, corresponding to the Jaime-1 lane; this profile keeps both lanes distinct rather than merging their histories.

How it travels

English and Turkish are shown by default; German is included when it adds a meaningfully different reading.

EnglishHY-may — Spanish (Jaime-1 lane)researched pronunciation
TurkishEnglish reading conventions often soften or drop a trailing "-e"; Turkish is pronounced letter-by-letter, so Turkish speakers are likely to voice that final syllable clearly where English speakers may not.deterministic phonetic analysis
GermanEnglish reading conventions often soften or drop a trailing "-e"; German is pronounced letter-by-letter, so German speakers are likely to voice that final syllable clearly where English speakers may not.deterministic phonetic analysis

Spelling stability: highbased on letter-pattern analysis, not a documented linguistic fact.

Also documented

Spanish: HY-may

European Portuguese: ZHY-mee

English: JAY-mee

Popularity without panic

Uncommon#657 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Still uncommon, but no longer unfamiliar.

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Real-world considerations

  • Spelling note: Jamie.
  • Jaime is not one name but two unrelated ones sharing a spelling: a Spanish/Portuguese masculine form of James, and an English feminine variant of Jamie. This project's boys #657 assignment corresponds to the former, but individual US birth records using this spelling cannot be traced to one lane or the other from the sources available here.
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