Jáime
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jáime is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A Spanish form of Jacob, from Late Latin Iacomus, dialectal variant of Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ) (Jacob). Cf.
- CLChile≈1 in 264(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 294
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 326
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #508 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 517 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 264 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jaime in US United States, PE Peru, ES Spain and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Late LatinIacomus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸάκωβοςIákōbos(measured from records)
- Biblical HebrewיַעֲקֹבYaʿăqōḇ(measured from records)
- LatinSanctus“holy“holy, saint”(measured from records)
A Spanish form of Jacob, 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.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jáime counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #99 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 595 | — | Jaime | 139 |
| CO Colombia | #67 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 294 | 149 | Jaime | 212 |
| US United States | #607 | 158,232 | 1 in 2.1K | 113K | Jaime | 517 |
| ES Spain | #69 | 95,004 | 1 in 526 | 96K | Jaime | 256 |
| PE Peru | #61 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 348 | — | Jaime | 136 |
| CL Chile | #82 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 264 | 55 | Jaime | 169 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 63,698 | 1 in 265 | 64K | Jaime | 120 |
| SV El Salvador | #106 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 326 | — | Jaime | 86 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jáime mean, and where does it come from?
- A Spanish form of Jacob, from Late Latin Iacomus, dialectal variant of Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ) (Jacob). Cf. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Is Jáime a male or female name?
- Jáime 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.
- In which country does Jáime have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 184 thousand people named Jáime in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaime.
- How common is the name Jáime?
- In the United States, the national register counted 158,232 people named Jáime in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Jáime compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jáime is the 99th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A1imeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jáime” — the 99th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.