Jamie is James in sneakers. A Scottish pet form of the biblical James, itself from the Hebrew Jacob meaning "supplanter," it first became an independent given name in Scotland in the seventeenth century. It has one of the most evenly unisex profiles in English, worn by actors, novelists, and folk singers on both sides of the gender line, from Jamie Lee Curtis to Jamie Foxx to Outlander's Jamie Fraser. Ranked 623, it has the easy charm of a name that doesn't try too hard. Two syllables, warm vowel, soft ending, a name that sounds like someone already halfway to smiling.
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- Tru
- Jream
- Frankie
- Monroe
- Layne
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