Jamie

What Jamie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jamie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Jamie in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jamie?

US: Rising: up from #812 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #91 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1976, when 4,621 boys got the name (#62 that year). First in the US records in 1896.

How common

• About 1 in 3,362 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,395 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 298 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WA (0.67 per 1,000 boys), MA (0.59 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.58 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jamie is #577 in the US and #245 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 61.7% of US babies named Jamie were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jimmie30 US
• Jamiah5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Jaime
• Jaymey

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Jamie

Boys

• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• Jesse#184Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1981, with 10,443 babies; 2,002 in 2025
• Jon#951Variant of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• John#23possibly “God is gracious”^*
• Adam#101“earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Jeremy#292Form of Jeremiah, meaning “Yahweh exalt”^*

For a sister

• Marie#617Editor’s note Down from #560 in 2015 to #617 in 2025 in the US
• Deborah#862“bee”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Lisa#987“Locally Integrated Software Architecture”^*
• Jessie#823Diminutive of Jessica, possibly meaning “Iscah in Genesis 11:29…^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jamie’s. Rank is US 2025.