Jaimie

While My name is actually Benjamin Nathan-James XXXXX my family always called me Jaimie (spelled exactly that way) growing up. I always disliked it at the time as I thought it was too girlish. When I was younger I made everyone call me Ben, but my family still calls me Jaimie, even now that I am 57, :)

Come on now, Jamie is a nickname for boys named James, and a nickname only. Why should you bastardize the spelling of the nickname and use it on females? It sounds tacky, trashy, and immature. I'd hate to be a woman named Jaimie.

It is funny because I have never met another "Jaimie", and I sound a lot like that other girl named Jaimie, including being named after the bionic woman, what a small world!

This is my name. I used to hate it when I was a little girl, I thought it was too masculine. I wanted to be an Elizabeth or a Jane or what have you. But now, I hate to say it, but it has grown on me. I am not dramatic, or brooding, or any of that--I am short, cute-ish, and kind of straightforward--and I think that suits the name--not too fancy, sometimes boyish, kind of guileless, maybe--I don't know! I think I am a Jaimie. It suited me when I was small and it suits me now that I am an adult. I like that it means "I love" or "I like", but I am sad to say that I am mostly named after the Bionic Woman, aka Jamie Sommers (if that is the right spelling!) What can I say it was the '70's!