Jaime
A Spanish name with a Latin root, from the word for "supplanter". In Poland it's rare: around 300 people carry it, nearly all of them men, and no boy was given it last year.
Jaime Pronunciation
Jaime is pronounced yah-EE-me (/jaˈimɛ/).
What Jaime means
Where Jaime comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jaime reached Spanish through Latin, where the form Iacomus grew as a spoken variant of Iacobus. That Latin name carried over the Hebrew name of the patriarch Jacob, and with it the old sense of "supplanter," in Polish zastępca. The reading goes back to the story of Jacob, who took hold of his brother Esau's heel at birth and later stepped into his place.
In Spain the name belongs above all to Jaime I of Aragon, known in Catalan as Jaume, the thirteenth-century king remembered as the Conqueror. He pushed the crown's reach into Valencia and Mallorca, ruling for more than sixty years. Kings after him kept the name.
On a Spanish class register Jaime still sits among the common boys' names. The word behind it stays plain: Jaime means supplanter, in Polish zastępca.
How many people are named Jaime
1 in 66499 men in Poland is named Jaime. 328 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1669 among male names.
Jaime as a middle name
Jaime is a first name for 328 men in Poland and a middle name for another 63, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 919th, between Arian (63) and Mieczyslaw (63).
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#917 Aharon63
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#918 Arian63
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#919 Jaime63
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#920 Mieczyslaw63
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#921 Morgan63