James

James is the (Vulgar/Later Latin) form of the Hebrew name Yaʻaqov (known as Jacob in its earlier Latin form). The name James came into the English language from the Old French variation James of the late Latin name Iacomus. This was a Vulgar/Later Latin (proto-Romance) variant of the earlier Latin form Iacobus, from the New Testament Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יעקב (Yaʻaqov) (Jacob). The development Iacobus > Iacomus is likely a result of nasalization of the o and assimilation to the following b (i.e., intermediate *Iacombus) followed by simplification of the cluster mb through loss of the b. Diminutives include Jim, Jimmy, Jimmie, Jamie, Jimbo and others.

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Masc. proper name, New Testament name of two of Christ's disciples, late 12c. Middle English vernacular form of Late Latin Jacomus (source of Old French James, Spanish Jaime, Italian Giacomo), altered from Latin Jacobus (see Jacob). The Welsh form was Iago, the Cornish Jago. James the Greater (July 25) was son of Zebedee and brother of St. John; James the Less (May 1) is obscure and scarcely mentioned in Scripture; he is said to have been called that for being shorter or younger than the other. Fictional British spy James Bond dates from 1953, created by British author Ian Fleming (1908-1964), who plausibly is said to have taken the name from that of U.S. ornithologist James Bond (1900-1989), an expert on Caribbean birds.

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Supplanter, holder of the heel.

Diego, Jim, Jimbo, Hamish, Jamie, Jaime, Jacob, Jake, Gemmes, Jack, Seumas, Jacques, Giacomo, Diogo

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	LeBron James	1984	American professional basketball player
2	James Franco	1978	American actor, writer, producer, director, and teacher
3	James Corden	1978	English actor and comedian
4	James McAvoy	1979	Scottish actor
5	James Comey	1960	American lawyer and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
6	James Dean	1931	American actor
7	James VI and I	1566	King during union of English and Scottish crowns
8	James Mattis	1950	26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United States Marine Corps general
9	James Cameron	1954	Canadian film director
10	James Earl Jones	1931	American actor
11	James Spader	1960	American actor
12	Theo James	1984	English actor
13	James Brown	1933	American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
14	Lily James	1989	English actress
15	James Marsden	1973	American actor
16	James Stewart	1908	American film and stage actor
17	James Harden	1989	American basketball player
18	James Deen	1986	American pornographic actor, director, producer and blogger
19	Kevin James	1965	Actor/Comedian
20	James Madison	1751	4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
21	James VII and II	1633	King of England, Scotland and Ireland
22	James David Rodríguez Rubio	1991	Colombian footballer
23	James Brolin	1940	American actor
24	James A. Garfield	1831	American politician, 20th president of the United States (in office in 1881)
25	James Gandolfini	1961	Emmy award winning American actor
26	James Garner	1928	American film and television actor (1928-2014)
27	James Blunt	1974	English singer-songwriter
28	James Taylor	1948	American singer-songwriter and guitarist
29	James Hunt	1947	British racing driver
30	James Buchanan	1791	American politician, 15th president of the United States (in office from 1857 to 1861)
31	James B. Donovan	1916	American diplomat and politician
32	James Cook	1728	British explorer, navigator
33	James Caan	1940	Actor
34	James Woods	1947	American film, stage and television actor
35	James Packer	1967	Australian businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
36	James Hetfield	1963	American musician, songwriter and record producer
37	James Norton	1985	English actor
38	James Wan	1977	Australian film director, producer, screenwriter
39	James Horner	1953	Film composer and conductor
40	James Gordon		Fictional character throughout the DC Universe
41	James Earl Ray	1928	Assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr.
42	Jesse James	1969	American television personality and manufacturer of custom-made motorcycles
43	Mickie James	1979	American professional wrestler, actress, model and singer
44	James K. Polk	1795	American politician, 11th president of the United States (in office from 1845 to 1849)
45	Rick James	1948	Singer, songwriter, dancer, bandleader, record producer
46	James Avery	1945	American ppp
47	James Baldwin	1924	(1924-1987) writer from the United States
48	James Cromwell	1940	American actor and producer
49	James Burke	1931	American gangster
50	James Joyce	1882	Irish novelist and poet
51	James May	1963	English television presenter and journalist
52	James Haven	1973	American film, television and voice actor, director, screenwriter and producer
53	James Monroe	1758	American politician, 5th president of the United States (in office from 1817 to 1825)
54	James Bay	1990	British singer-songwriter
55	James Coburn	1928	American film and television actor
56	Etta James	1938	American singer
57	James Arness	1923	American actor
58	James Randi	1928	Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic
59	James Van Der Beek	1977	Actor
60	James J. Braddock	1905	American boxer
61	James Lafferty	1985	American actor
62	James Milner	1986	English footballer
63	James Cagney	1899	Actor, dancer
64	James Arthur	1988	English singer and musician
65	James Patterson	1947	American author
66	James Righton	1983	British musician
67	James Badge Dale	1978	American actor
68	James Hewitt	1958	British Army officer
69	James Clerk Maxwell	1831	Scottish physicist
70	James Remar	1953	American actor
71	Lennie James	1965	British actor-writer
72	James Purefoy	1964	English actor
73	James D'Arcy	1975	English actor
74	James Watt	1736	Scottish inventor and engineer
75	Juan del wey watson	1928	American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
76	James V of Scotland	1512	King of Scots
77	Bradley James	1983	English actor
78	James Cosmo	1948	Scottish actor
79	William James	1842	American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
80	James Nesbitt	1965	Northern Irish actor
81	James Foley	1973	American journalist
82	James Roday	1976	American actor, director and screenwriter
83	James Eagan Holmes	1983	Perpetrator of the July 20, 2012 mass shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado
84	James Brady	1940	White House Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan
85	James Mason	1909	British actor
86	James T. Kirk	2233	Character in the Star Trek media franchise
87	James Martin	1972	British chef and television presenter
88	E. L. James	1963	British writer
89	James Carville	1944	Political writer, consultant and United States Marine
90	James Storm	1977	Professional wrestler
91	James Doohan	1920	Canadian character and voice actor
92	James Tupper	1965	Canadian actor
93	James Marsters	1962	American actor
94	James Frain	1968	English stage and screen actor
95	Henry James	1843	American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
96	James Bond		Fictional spy
97	James Ellsworth	1984	American professional wrestler
98	Brian d'Arcy James	1968	Actor, musician
99	James Maslow	1990	American actor, model,songwriter and singer
100	James Bowen	1979	Author and musician
101	James Fox	1939	English actor
102	James Butler	1972	American boxer
103	James IV of Scotland	1473	King of Scots
104	James Matthews	1975	British former professional racing driver, hedge fund manager, and heir to the Scottish title of Laird of Glen Affric
105	James Gunn	0005	American writer, actor and filmmaker
106	James L. Dolan	1955	American businessman
107	James Callaghan	1912	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
108	James Hong	1929	American actor, voice actor and director
109	James Bowie	1796	Nineteenth-century American pioneer, soldier, smuggler, slave trader, and land speculator, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution
110	James Buckley	1987	British actor
111	James Burrows	1940	American television director known for situation comedy, from the 1970s
112	James Welch	1940	Native American writer
113	James Whitmore	1921	Actor
114	James Worthy	1961	American basketball player
115	James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell	1534	Scottish admiral
116	Sid James	1913	British actor
117	James O'Keefe	1984	Politically conservative, hidden camera filmmaker noted for targeting liberal organizations
118	James Best	1926	American actor, musician, artist
119	James DeBarge	1963	American singer
120	James MacArthur	1937	American actor
121	James Hinchcliffe	1986	Canadian race car driver
122	James Bolam	1935	Actor
123	James Mangold	1963	Film director, screenwriter
124	James Dyson	1947	British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company
125	Susan Saint James	1946	American actress and activist
126	James DeGale	1986	British boxer
127	James Toney	1968	American martial artist
128	James Baker	1930	Former U.S. Secretary of State
129	James Harris Simons	1938	American hedge fund manager
130	James Paxton	1994	American actor
131	James Ransone	1979	American actor
132	James Darren	1936	Actor
133	James Wolk	1985	American actor
134	James Joseph Dresnok	1941	American defector to North Korea
135	James Michael McAdoo	1993	American basketball player
136	Luke James	1983	American singer
137	James Arnold Taylor	1969	Voice actor
138	James L. Brooks	1940	American director, producer and screenwriter
139	James Newton Howard	1951	American composer
140	James Francis Edward Stuart	1688	British prince
141	James Iha	1968	Musician (guitarist, producer, writer, singer)
142	James I of Scotland	1394	King of Scots
143	James Anderson	1982	English cricketer, born 1982
144	James Rebhorn	1948	American character actor
145	James Denton	1963	American film and television actor
146	Duncan James	1978	English singer, actor and television presenter
147	James Blake	1979	American tennis player
148	James Stacy	1936	American actor
149	Clive James	1939	Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
150	James Meredith	1933	American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser
151	James Lipton	1926	Poet, talk show host, writer, teacher
152	James Drury	1934	Former actor; oil and natural gas business
153	James Dashner	1972	American author
154	James Stockdale	1923	United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
155	James Longstreet	1821	Confederate Army general
156	James Laurinaitis	1986	All-American college football player, professional football player, linebacker
157	James Morrison	1984	English singer-songwriter and guitarist
158	James Gosling	1956	Canadian computer scientist
159	James Murphy	1970	American musician
160	James II of Scotland	1430	Scottish king
161	James Fenimore Cooper	1789	American author
162	James Connolly	1868	Irish republican and socialist leader
163	James McCartney	1977	Musician, writer
164	James Goldstein		American basketball superfan
165	James III of Scotland	1451	King of Scots
166	James Goldsmith	1933	Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon
167	James McClean	1989	Footballer
168	James William Middleton	1987	English businessman and member of the Middleton family
169	James Arthur Ray	1957	American speaker
170	James Franklin	1972	American college football player, college football coach, quarterback
171	Kimber James	1988	American transsexual pornographic performer
172	James Parks	1968	American actor
173	James Wilson		Fictional character on the Fox medical drama House
174	James Chadwick	1891	English physicist
175	James Jones	1984	American football wide receiver, born 1984
176	James Herriot	1916	Veterinary surgeon and writer
177	Liam James	1996	Canadian actor
178	James Roosevelt	1907	Son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
179	James Keach	1947	American actor
180	Darren James	1964	American former pornographic actor
181	James Frey	1969	American screenwriter and media presenter
182	James Barry	1795	Military surgeon in the British Army
183	Charles James	1990	American football player
184	James Marshall	1967	American actor
185	James White	1992	American football player, born 1992
186	Frank James	1843	Outlaw, Confederate guerrilla, and train robber from Kearney, Clay County, Missouri, USA
187	James A. Michener	1907	American author
188	Clifton James	1921	American actor
189	James Carpinello	1975	American actor
190	Cheryl James	1966	American rapper and actress
191	James Jordan	1978	British dancer
192	Trinidad James	1987	American musician
193	Stephan James	1993	Canadian film and television actor
194	James Beck	1929	Actor
195	James Thompson	1978	English professional mixed martial artist
196	James Gregory	1911	Actor
197	Stephen Hendry	1990	British footballer, model
198	James Patrick Stuart	1968	Actor
199	Geraldine James	1950	British actress
200	James O. Richardson	1878	United States Navy admiral