Jaymes

Where Jaymes comes from

The dictionaries list Jaymes as a given name — a male given name of modern usage, variant of James — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #3,681 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Peak, #754
    144 babies named Jaymes — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1991
    Jaymes Young born
    American singer-songwriter and musician
  4. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,452.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name of modern usage, variant of James.
Namesakes
  • Jaymes Young · American singer-songwriter and musician, born 1991

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.