Jamie

312,010 people in America carry this name — ranked #163 of 923.

A name given to boys and girls alike.

Say it JAY mee

2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

JH EY1 M IY0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 312,010 2020 Census
  • Per 100,000 103.3 about 1 in 1,062 people
  • As a surname 443 ranked #50,912 the other way round

What Jamie means and where it comes from

Hebrew in origin, reading literally as “supplanter”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

Jamie name popularity by year

355,347 babies were given this name since 1884. The busiest year was 1976, with 17,158 of them.

80 90 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80s 90 00 10 20

Most people carrying it were born in the 1980s. It has been given less often of late.

Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.

Middle names for Jamie

Two syllables sit with almost anything — the join matters more than the length.

Better avoided

  • Jamie John — same opening
  • Jamie James — same opening
  • Jamie Joseph — same opening

Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.

What Jamie is short for

Jamie is a short form of James.

Short forms as recorded in a 19th-century glossary of Christian names, so the list is old rather than complete.

Going quiet

Jamie has more than halved in three decades. The people carrying it belong mostly to Generation X.

Boys or girls: who is called Jamie?

23.3% men
239,255 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

Who has this name today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 79.9%
  • Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 5.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 7.3%
  • Two or more races — 3.6%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 2.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.9%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

Full names people carry

The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.

Where in America Jamie is thickest on the ground

In Wyoming the name is given 2.1 times as often as it is across the country.

  • Wyoming ×2.1
  • Montana ×1.8
  • South Dakota ×1.6
  • West Virginia ×1.5
  • North Dakota ×1.5

Measured against the state's own share of births since 1960, so a small state can lead a big one. Counted from Social Security card applications.

This name in other languages

  • Kub Lus.|Pol
  • Jim English
  • Lapo Italian
  • Kuba Polish
  • Jogg Swiss
  • Jock Swiss
  • Jeka Lett
  • Jako Ill
  • Jaka Slov
  • Jaga English
  • Jaak Esth
  • Jaap Dutch
  • Iago Spanish
  • Como Italian

Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.

Names built the same way as Jamie

Ends on the same sound

Same rhythm — 2 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Hebrew origin