Jaimee

Where Jaimee comes from

Jaimee hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #4,960 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #769
    196 babies named Jaimee — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1979
    Jaimee Foxworth born
    American actress
  4. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,272.
  5. 1999
    Jaimee Fourlis born
    Australian tennis player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jaimee Foxworth · American actress, born 1979
  • Jaimee Fourlis · Australian tennis player, born 1999
  • Jaimee Provan · New Zealand field hockey player, born 1978
  • Jaimee Eggleton · Canadian figure skater, born 1964
  • Jaimee Lovett · New Zealand canoeist, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.