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James
Pronounced /d͡ʒeɪmz/
Rank in 2024
#2,586
Born in 2024
68
Peak year
1928 · #319
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:11,793 in 2024 (#5)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 68 girls were named James, about 1 in every 23,723.
- It peaked in 1928 with 427 babies, ranked #319.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 23,826 girls have been named James since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named James per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 4,024 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Silent: 5,281 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,024 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,654 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,876 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 645 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 732 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
The English New Testament form of Jacob, from Middle English James, from Old French James, from Vulgar Latin Iācōmus, spoken and altered pronunciation of Latin Iācōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “May He Heel”), from the third-person singular masculine imperfective form of the Semitic verb "to heel" (with various meanings), in turn from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel of the foot”). Doublet of Jacques, Jacob, Iago, Jago, Yago, Hamish, Seamus, Tiago, Santiago, and Yaakov.
- A male given name from Hebrew popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /d͡ʒeɪmz/
From Wiktionary’s entry for James, CC BY-SA 4.0.