Jaime
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: From Hebrew Ya'aqob via Greek and Latin Jacobus/Jacomus; Spanish form related to James
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xaime/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jaime is a 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.
- 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)
- Sources
- 517 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 264 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- HebrewYa'aqob(measured from records)
- Greekand(measured from records)
From Hebrew Ya'aqob via Greek and Latin Jacobus/Jacomus; Spanish form related to James.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jaime is read(measured from records)
Jaime is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish57%
- English27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jaime in English.
- Portuguese5.8%
a male given name, equivalent to English James
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jaime, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaime 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jaime is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
,2 This is the Spanish form of James, but in the United States and Canada it has in recent years come to be used also as a girl’s name, apparently a respelling of the girl’s name Jamie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Spanish form of }James (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Se Jakob.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Infante Jaime, Duke of Segoviab. 1908ESpretender to the throne of Spain from 1941 to 1969 and legitimist pretender to the thrones of France and of Navarre from 1941 to 1975
- Jaime Sánchezb. 1938USactor
- Jaime Camilb. 1974MXMexican actor (born 1973)
- Jaime Murrayb. 1976GBEnglish actress
- Jaime Presslyb. 1977USAmerican actress, model, and producer
- Iván Kaviedes Toaquizab. 1977ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian footballer
- Jaime Ray Newmanb. 1978USAmerican actress
- Jaime Kingb. 1979USAmerican actress and model
- Jaime Alguersuarib. 1990ESSpanish racing driver
- Jaime Lorenteb. 1991ESSpanish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 101 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 113K | #353 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 96K | #50 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 95K | #105 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 64K | #27 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45K | #353 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 420 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 149 | #21 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 77 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 55 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Jaime?
- In the etymology graph, James, Jamie and Jacob are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Jaime a male or female name?
- Jaime 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.
- How do you pronounce Jaime?
- A machine transcription gives /xaime/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Jaime mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hebrew Ya'aqob via Greek and Latin Jacobus/Jacomus; Spanish form related to James. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- In which country does Jaime have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 184 thousand people named Jaime in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaime.
- How common is the name Jaime?
- In the United States, the national register counted 158,232 people named Jaime in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Jaime compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jaime is the 99th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jaime?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaimeThe 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, “Jaime” — the 99th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.