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James is the second most common first name for living individuals in the United States, belonging to roughly 3.4 million people in the United States as of 2021, according to the Social Security Administration. [6] In 2022, in the United States, the name James was given to 12,028 boys, ranking it as the fourth most popular name. [7]
The name James is the English New Testament variant for the Hebrew name Jacob. It entered the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages from the French variation of the late Latin name for Jacob, Iacomus ; a dialect variant of Iacobus , from the New Testament Greek Ἰάκωβος ( Iákōvos ), and ultimately from Hebrew word יעקב ( Yaʻaqov ...
Word/name: Hebrew: Meaning ... Jim is a given name or a hypocorism of the given name James or Jimena, and a short form of Jimmy. People. Jim Acosta ...
Variants of Santiago include Iago (a common Galician language name), and Thiago or Tiago (a common Portuguese language name). The common name James has many forms in Iberia , including Xacobo or Xacobe and Iago (in Galician), Jaume, Xaume (in Catalan), Jaime, Jacobo, and Diego (in Spanish) and Jacó or Jacob, Jaime and Diogo (in Portuguese).
Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became Jacome and later Jacme.In east Spain, Jacme became Jaime, in Aragon it became Chaime, and in Catalonia it became Jaume.
Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name. It is the anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name Seamus or Sheumais . [ 1 ] It is therefore, the equivalent of James .
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Jacques is the French equivalent of James, ultimately originating from the name Jacob. Jacques is derived from the Late Latin Iacobus, from the Greek Ἰακώβος (Septuagintal Greek Ἰακώβ), from the Hebrew name Jacob יַעֲקֹב . [18] (See Jacob.) James is derived from Iacomus, a variant of Iacobus. [19]