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James is one of the most common male names in the English-speaking world. In the United States, James was one of the five most common given names for male babies for most of the 20th century. Its popularity peaked during the Baby Boom (Census records 1940–1960), when it was the most popular name for baby boys.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
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 ...
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.
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.
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). Despite being a cognate, San Diego does not refer to Saint James but to Saint Didacus of Alcalá. [citation needed]
Jamie is a unisex name.Traditionally a masculine name, it can be diminutive form of James or, more rarely, other names and is of Scottish Gaelic origin. It is also given as a name in its own right.
The first Jadon to appear in the U.S. Census is Jadon Solomon Jones (born 1858) of South Carolina, among a few others of the same name in the 19th century.The first year the SSA listed the name – those names in its annual list must be given to at least five children – was in 1970, when there were five Jadens born.