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Jaymes

#5,972 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Supplanter, heel-grabber, through James

Jaymes has been given to 2,567 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #5,972 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1986, with 144 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Jaymes, 2025

1 in 221,000

Jaymes over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Jaymes over time

In 2025, Jaymes went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19502025

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.

Jaymes: meaning, origin, and history

Supplanter, heel-grabber, through James

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaymes means

Jaymes belongs to the name family reached through Jaymes → James → James → Iacomus. Its meaning is “supplanter, heel-grabber”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaymes is used in English.

Jaymes is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include James and Iacomus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,430 boys were recorded with the name Jaymes between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 144 in 1986; its best national rank was #755 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,960 in 2020 to #5,972 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,826 in 2015 to #5,972 in 2025.

In the United States, 137 girls were recorded with the name Jaymes between 2001 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,762 in 2016.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jaymes?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,972
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaymes 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 2025 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaymes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaymess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaymes was born before 1995 — so the typical Jaymes is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,430
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (626).

Is Jaymes 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
−1,348
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,012
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,146
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.4%
Peak was 1986 (144)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#755
1986

Spellings of Jaymes

Jaymes is not the most common spelling — James is, with 91.6% against Jaymes'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 Jaymes is used

Across 1910–2025, Jaymes was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 201,069 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Arizona1 in —
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 in —

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. Jaymes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jaymes around the world

Where Jaymes 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.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2016
    #3,478
    in 2016
  • France
    2008–2023
    #3,715
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1991–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jaymes

People whose public names include Jaymes, 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.

Jaymes in other languages

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

JaimeJamesJaymeSantiagoChaime

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

Jaymes by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,972
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,012
Best rank ever
#755
1986
Peak year
1986
144 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,430
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,762
2016
Peak year
2016
15 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jaymes

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

JayvenJaysenJaydinJaydanJaylynJayceeJayvonJaycenJaycobJaylanJaykobJaydynJayvinJayseJaytonJayquanJayvionJaymeJayveonJayvynJaydonJayronJayvianJayren

Names with a curve like Jaymes

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

MinhJerrickTavarisJovonRashardMartellLamarcusDontayJohnmichaelTjJoshuahTerell

Sibling names for Jaymes

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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