Given name

Jeams

Jeams is a masculine given name from Middle English. It is used in Scots.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Jeams comes from Middle English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Middle English Gemes.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Jeams’s family of names

In Scots usage, Jeams has a diminutive in JEAMIE.

Walk Jeams’s family in the name graph

JeamsJeamieJamesJacob

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Old English

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Biblical Hebrew · Biblical

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“Judean (i.e. Jew)”

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Sibling ideas

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