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Jame

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jame has been given to 3,833 babies in the U.S. since 1903. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1957, with 87 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.

Babies named Jame, 2024

1 in 557,000

Jame over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jame over time

In 2024, Jame went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19032024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jame: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jame means

Jame is a given name.

The naming story behind Jame

Wikidata records Jame as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q66264037, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,430 boys were recorded with the name Jame between 1903 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 87 in 1957; its best national rank was #806 in 1940.

In the United States, 403 girls were recorded with the name Jame between 1957 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,670 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jame?

Jame had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jame sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jame. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When James were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jame was born before 1957 — so the typical Jame is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,155
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1950s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (634).

Is Jame rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (87)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#806
1940

Spellings of Jame

Jame is not the most common spelling — James is, with 55.1% against Jame's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jame is used

Across 1910–2025, Jame was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 106,457 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

019 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,263
  2. 2Alabama1 in 25,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jame has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jame around the world

Where Jame ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1920–2024
    #6,842
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jame

People whose public names include Jame, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jame in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jame. Linked forms have their own page here.

JamJamiJamesJamie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jame by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#806
1940
Peak year
1957
87 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,430
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,670
1977
Peak year
1980
21 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
403
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jame

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JaminJamonJameyJamilJameelJamirJamelJamellJamereKwameJameerJamarJamallJamarrJamaalJamezJamierJamiJamielJamariJamalJameirJammieJamario

Names with a curve like Jame

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jame, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DuwayneVernellDwaneSalDwaineDavieLesleyCurtissDennieLennieLenRolf

Sibling names for Jame

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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