MEANING & HISTORY
What does Jaime mean?
Jaime is a Spanish form of the name represented by James in English. It comes through Latin Iacomus, a variant of Iacobus, from Hebrew Ya‘aqov.
Genesis relates Jacob to heel-holding and supplanting, while scholars also propose older explanations. Thus the James–Jacob formation is more certain than one unconditional root gloss. Jaime and Santiago share this broad name family.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
A unisex given name.; A male given name from Spanish from the Spanish form of James.; A female given name, variant of Jamie.
SpanishEtymology & source
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, misinterpreting San Diego as a variant of Santiago.
a male given name, equivalent to English James
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Jaime
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Jaime Sin
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Jaime Ongpin
Philippine politician (1938–1987)
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
65
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
27
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Jaime Sin, Jaime Ongpin
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Jaime in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Jaime
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Jayme♂Variant of Jamie, in the James name family
- Jade♂♀The ornamental stone jade
- Jairo♂God enlightens; Spanish biblical form
- Jake♂Medieval form of Jack; also short for Jacob
- James♂English Jacob-family form through Latin Iacomus
- Jamie♂♀Affectionate form of James
- Jamile♂♀Beautiful, through Arabic Jamila and Jamil
- Jane♀God is gracious; a feminine form of John
What rhymes with Jaime?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Recorded combinations with Jaime
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q2605834 — Jaime (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Jaime Sin (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q2605834 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Jaime Ongpin (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q2605834 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jaime (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jaime (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Jaime (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Behind the Name: jacob (opens in a new tab)
Independent onomastic comparison and qualifications to the proposed origin.