James

• I like it because I loved the book ``James and the Giant Peach``.
• It's simply nice. Too common though.
• versatile - you can be a gentleman or a scoundrel. my grandfather's name. Great diminutives (jim, jimmy, jamie)
• My number-one favorite boys' names. Have always loved it because it's simple without being too plain and lends itself to many different nickname, if a nickname is desired. Never out of fashion, no confusion over how it's spelled, and makes me think of a steady, calm, intelligent man or boy.
• I love the classic name James but I would refuse to call him Jimmy or Jim. Instead, I would shorten it to Ames. I heard it on a TV show once and even though it may have been a last name, it stuck with me.
• A classic, strong, sexy name. I like it the way it is--if I had a son named James, that's what we'd call him, not Jim, Jamie, or Jimmy.
• Anne's son, from Anne of Green Gables, was named James. And I love how it can unsually be shortened to Jem.
• I know it's very well known, but I haven't met any people naming there babies this recently. This was my grandfather's name and he was a very honorable man. If my baby is a boy, this is top on the list!
• This has just recently become special to me. It was my husbands grandfathers name. My husband had a great respect for his grandfather and he died the year before I met my husband.
• This is such a classic and I love it, it seems fresh even though it is quite common, it is strong and masculin but not overly so.

• goes with almost any name, it's strong, suitable for an adult or child and Jamie is so cute for a baby.

• Strong, classic, masculin-- this name goes perfectly with almost anything-- I love it!
• James Ryan - James is a name I love, and has great aging potential. Ryan is another favorite of mine that goes great with James.
• James Michael: a strong and Biblical name, meaning "supplanter."
• James Wallace: just a good, strong simple name that rolls nicely

James is an English form of the Latin name, Iacomus which comes to us from Iakobos, the Greek form of the name Yaakov. Yaakov is also the same name from where we get the English form Jacob. Yaakov is a Hebrew biblical name which stems from a word meaning "heel" or "heel grabber," due to the fact that when Jacob was born, he grabbed his brother Esau's heel. It is later in the Bible described to mean "supplanter," as Jacob supplanted (replaced) Esau twice, by his counting. James is the form used by the characters in the New Testament of the Bible (two of Christ's apostles).
See Also: James (girl)

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