Jamie
Meaning of Jamie
Jamie (pronounced JAY-mee) began life as a friendly Scottish pet-form of James, itself tracing a winding river back through Latin Iacobus to the Hebrew Yaakov, “supplanter.” Over time that cozy nickname shrugged off its diminutive sweater, strolled past the tartan hills, and set up shop as a fully fledged, happily unisex first name. In the late 1970s it blazed onto U.S. birth charts like a comet—peaking inside the Top 20—before settling into today’s gentler orbit where several hundred little Jamies still arrive each year. The name carries a pocketful of easy charm: biblical roots for the tradition-minded, a dash of Celtic mist for the romantics, and a breezy, café-con-leche vibe that feels right at home from Glasgow to Guadalajara. Jamie is the kid who can captain the soccer team, ace the poetry slam, and still remember to water Abuela’s orchids—a natural peacemaker with laughter tucked behind every syllable. If you’re hunting for a name that balances strength and sweetness, history and modern sparkle, Jamie steps forward with a grin that says, “Why not both?”
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as JAY-mee (/ˈdʒeɪmi/)
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Notable People Named Jamie
| Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress, producer, and children's author celebrated as a scream queen, with over $2.5 billion in box office and major awards including an Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards. |
| Jamie Oliver is an English celebrity chef and cookbook author whose casual cooking style led to popular TV shows and a chain of restaurants. |
| Jamie Foxx is an American actor, comedian, and singer who rose to fame on In Living Color before starring in and helping create The Jamie Foxx Show. |
| Jamie Cullum - Jamie Paul Joseph Cullum is an English jazz pop singer, pianist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and radio presenter who has released many records and hosted a weekly BBC Radio 2 jazz show since 2010. |
| Jamie Chadwick is a British racing driver, a three time W Series champion now competing for IDEC Sport in the 2025 European Le Mans Series, formerly with Andretti Global in Indy NXT, who also serves as a Williams ambassador and F1 Academy adviser, is a test driver for Jaguar Formula E, and has raced in Extreme E and the Race of Champions. |
| Jamie Lewis is a Welsh professional darts player who competes in PDC and WDF events and reached the 2018 PDC World Championship semifinals, losing to Phil Taylor. |
| Jamie Shona Gorelick is an American lawyer who served as U.S. Deputy Attorney General from 1994 to 1997 under Clinton and has been a WilmerHale partner since 2003 and an Amazon director since 2012. |
| Jamie Bell - Andrew James Matfin Bell is an English actor who won BAFTA Best Actor for Billy Elliot and later played Tintin and Ben Grimm the Thing. |
| Jamie Campbell Bower - James Metcalfe Campbell Bower is an English actor and singer known for Sweeney Todd, The Twilight Saga, playing young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts, and starring in the TV series Camelot and Will. |
| Jamie Zawinski, known as jwz, is an American programmer and blogger who helped create Netscape, Lucid Emacs, Mozilla.org, and XScreenSaver, and he owns the DNA Lounge nightclub in San Francisco. |
| Jamie Thomas is an American professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, founder of Zero Skateboards and nicknamed The Chief. |
| Jamie Campbell-Walter - Jamie Oliver Campbell Walter is a British racing driver from Oban who won the 2000 FIA GT and 2013 World Endurance titles and now co owns Bullet Sports Management with Nicolas Minassian and Maria Catarineu. |
| Jamie Kennedy - James Harvey Kennedy is an American actor and comedian best known as Randy Meeks in the Scream series, with lead roles in Son of the Mask and Trick and supporting turns in Enemy of the State and Boiler Room. |
| Jamie Anderson is an American snowboarder who won slopestyle gold at the 2014 and 2018 Olympics, becoming the first woman with multiple Olympic snowboarding golds, and has 21 X Games medals. |
| Jamie Delano is an English comic book writer from the 1980s British Invasion and the first writer of Hellblazer featuring John Constantine. |
