Baby name
CLASSIC
🇧🇷 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Jaime
/HAI · meh/
Meaning
“Supplanter”
Spanish and Portuguese form of James, from Late Latin Jacomus, itself from Hebrew Ya'akov meaning 'supplanter'; the dominant masculine James-equivalent across the Spanish-speaking world.
Nicknames
jai
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Durable classic across Latin America and Spain - never trendy, never fading.
The cultural moment.
Consistently common in Spain and Latin America for centuries.