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The first name 
Jaime

Jaime is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.

Jaime known and loved in the US!

The name Jaime is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #944 in the SmartGenius ranking.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Jaime

What does the name 
Jaime mean?

Jaime is originally a Spanish and Portuguese name. Like the English form James, it derived from the from the Hebrew name Ya’aqov meaning ‘supplanter’ or ‘may God protect’.

In non-English speaking countries, ... Jaime is exclusively a boy's name.

Jaime -
carrying the 80s and 90s into our century

This was a real surprise! Jaime is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #60 in the year 1976, when 9,240 parents chose this name for their newborn child. This made Jaime much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Jaime was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Jaime - a popular player in the midfield

In 2022, Jaime ranked 1,135 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborns a total of 520 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Jaime will remain a universally popular name.

Jaime has 5 letters 
and begins with a J

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a very popular first letter for given names. That’s because 8.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the initial letter A is more common for first names.

With five letters, the name Jaime is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 8.3% of all first names start with a J, this initial letter occurs more than two times as often as all other letters on average.

Other names with 
J, a, i, m and e

If you take all the letters in the name Jaime – J, a, i, m and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Jaemi or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jaime

If your name is Jaime and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Jaime

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jaime, you can simply say:

Joker

Apple

Igloo

Mouse

Elephant

This is how the name Jaime is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Jaime in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Jaime

Jaime

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Jaime

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Jaime is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
A
I
M
E

Have you ever waved the name Jaime

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

J
A
I
M
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jaime sounds like this: