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James
Pronounced /d͡ʒeɪmz/
Rank in 2024
#5
Born in 2024
11,793
Peak year
1947 · #1
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:68 in 2024 (#2,586)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 11,793 boys were named James, about 1 in every 145.
- It peaked in 1947 with 94,763 babies, ranked #1.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 5,238,570 boys 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.
- 44.3Greatest1901–27
- 52.8Silent1928–45
- 41.8Boomers1946–64
- 29.4Gen X1965–80
- 16.5Millennials1981–96
- 8.4Gen Z1997–12
- 7.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 740,411 babies, 44.29 per 1,000. Silent: 1,090,469 babies, 52.80 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,571,074 babies, 41.84 per 1,000. Gen X: 799,148 babies, 29.36 per 1,000. Millennials: 503,495 babies, 16.54 per 1,000. Gen Z: 262,449 babies, 8.36 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 159,500 babies, 7.34 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.