Jaime 2

I have a friend who pronounces it HI-mee.

I never understood the Jaime spelling for Jamie. It seems to me the ai would be pronounced hy as in the Spanish name Jaime which is pronounced Hy-mee. Another example would be the game Jai-alai, it's pronounced Hy-lye not Hay-alay. At the very least, Jaime seems it would be pronounced Jaym with a long a as a one syllable name. I am female, named after my father who is James. I've always liked my name and find it just a tad irritating when someone misspells it as Jaime. But that's my personal impression. :)

If you're intending to give this name to your daughter in this spelling, intending it to be from the French phrase j'aime, you should be aware that that phrase is actually pronounced something like "ZHEM". It's definitely not said anything like JAY-mee. [noted -ed]

Because me name is spelled Jaime, people always pronounced it like the Spanish male version, like on the first day of classes, or teasing me. My mom says that Jamie spells jammie as in jam-ee, and that Jaime is like jay-me. So that's her theory anyways. I like my name so that's all that matters.

But Jamie has been pronounced that way for centuries, and a with a single consonant following a vowel it would probably have a long 'a' sound; Jamie is a name with a lot of history pronounced Jamie, while Jaime until a generation ago was always a male Spanish name pronounced HY-may, so her 'theory' sounds more like personal preference to me.