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Baby name
James
Boy
Origin of the name
James comes from the Late Latin Iacomus, a form of Iacobus, which is the Latin version of Jacob. It is the English counterpart of the French Jacques, and several kings of England and Scotland bore it.
Classic name
5,250,638births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 1rank at its peak, in 1947
Where babies named James are born
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The darker the blue, the more common James is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, James is most common in Mississippi (1.8 times), South Carolina (1.7) and Alabama (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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