Jame
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Jame by the numbers
Jame was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 87 babies in 1957, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Jame
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jame. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Janegod is gracious; a form of jeanne1,148 in the US (2017)
- Jamiehe supplants; form of james195 in England and Wales (2025)
- Jaimesupplanter; Spanish form of James665 in the US (2017)
- Jaymesupplanter; a form of James70 in the US (2017)
- Jameysupplanter; diminutive of james32 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Jame
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