Jaime

English

Alternative forms

• Jamie

Proper noun

Jaime (plural Jaimes)

1. A unisex given name
   1. A male given name from Spanish from the Spanish form of James.
      • 1971, Charles Willeford, The Burnt Orange Heresy, page 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.

   2. A female given name, variant of Jamie.
      • 2004, Kelley Armstrong, Industrial Magic, page 134:

        A few minutes later, Jaime stood and rubbed her shoulders. "You okay?" I asked. She made a noncommittal noise […]

   3. Alternative form of Jamie

See also

• James
• Jamie
• Jim
• Jimmi
• Jimmie
• Jimmy

 

References

• [1] 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

• Jamie, Mejia

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Jayme (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Jayme, borrowed from Old Spanish Jayme, from Latin Iācōbus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), borrowed from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב, from עקב. Doublet of Iago, Jacó, and Tiago.

Cognate with Galician Xaime.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒaj.mi/ [ˈʒaɪ̯.mi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒaj.mi/ [ˈʒaɪ̯.mi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒaj.me/ [ˈʒaɪ̯.me]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒaj.mɨ/

• Hyphenation: Jai‧me

Proper noun

Jaime m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English James

Spanish

Etymology

A Spanish form of Jacob, from Old Spanish Jayme, from Late Latin Iacomus, dialectal variant of Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ) (Jacob). Cf. French James, Catalan Jaume, Occitan Jacme. The name Iacobus also gave in Spanish Yago and Santiago (Saint James), from Latin Sanctus (“holy, saint”) Iacobus (“James”). The claimed relationship to the name Diego is a folk etymology of Santiago.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaime/ [ˈxai̯.me]

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• Rhymes: -aime
• Syllabification: Jai‧me

Proper noun

Jaime m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English James

Related terms

• Jacobo

 

Anagrams

• Mejía