Jaimie

Where Jaimie comes from

Jaimie 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
    #3,994 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1984
    Jaimie Alexander born
    American actress
  4. 1987
    Peak, #352
    670 babies named Jaimie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1989
    Jaimie Thibeault born
    Canadian volleyball player
  6. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #785.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jaimie Alexander · American actress, born 1984
  • Jaimie Thibeault · Canadian volleyball player, born 1989
  • Jaimie Branch · American jazz trumpeter and composer, 1982–2022
  • Jaimie Leonoff · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1993

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.