Jame
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Belgian/English form derived from Jacques
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
/ʒeɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jame is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 60K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 70K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 123K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
4,759 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Belgian/English form derived from Jacques.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jame 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,759 | 1 in 70K | 3.8K | Jame | 289 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Jame | 33 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Jame | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Jame | 89 |
| CO Colombia | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Jame | 22 |
| CL Chile | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 1 | Jame | 18 |
| SG Singapore | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Jame | 13 |
4,759 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Jame is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, third-person singular locative of jis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, juron
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- James Wattb. 1698not in their usual nameScottish merchant
- Jame Pollockb. 1979CACanadian ice hockey player
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)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.8K | #4,068 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 943 | #4,068 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 87 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 73 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 73 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1958 | 73 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 69 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 68 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2011 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 does the name Jame mean, and where does it come from?
- Belgian/English form derived from Jacques. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Jame?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒeɪm/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jame a male or female name?
- Jame is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- In which country does Jame have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Jame, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jame.
- How common is the name Jame?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,759 people named Jame in 2020, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jameThe 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, “Jame”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.