How do you pronounce this name?

[Cosmos45]

I have a meeting tomorrow with a Jaime. I have googled and I am told by an american website that it is pronounced the same as Jamie. Just double checking that is correct?

Jaime is a MALE portuguese name, so I always find it odd to see females named like that

Would it be appropriate to just ask? "Hi, please can you tell me how to pronounce your name?".

I had a summer student a while ago whose name starts with a Ch. We'd all be pronouncing it with a hard Ch, like chair and he didn't say anything.
It wasn't until nearly his last day that it came to light (maybe we'd taken a call for him or something, I can't remember now), that it was a soft Ch, like chaise longue.

I wish he'd said something as it's really not hard to get right.

I would introduce myself by name, and hopefully he will too. So many names these days are not pronounced as you think they will be - it's a minefield!

As tinytear says is he portugese/brazillian

I would say it the same as Jamie.

Also it's not pronounced the same in Portuguese as it is in Spanish. In Portuguese it's more like Jy-me (first part is a bit more complex than that, but it's the simplest way of putting it for English speakers) with a soft J like the second g in garage.

The J in Portuguese is NOT the same as the J in Spanish.

Try googling his surname to see where he might be from, OP?

And yes to just asking up front how he pronounces it.

Thank all for your replies. I emailed him with the agenda for the meeting and bit the bullet and asked who else was attending and also how he pronounced his name! He emailed back and said thank you so much for bothering to ask because most people don't and they also spell his name incorrectly. In this case it is pronounced Jamie (Jay me). I have to really double check these days after mispronouncing an Irish name once and cringing about it for years after..

Pleased he didn’t mind being asked! Sounds like it is all sorted

Well done OP.

Good on you for noticing the correct spelling of his name and bothering to check how it is pronounced.

That's very professional of you OP, I think that's a job well done - both for noticing the spelling and asking directly.

@SockYarn

Jamie, or Jaime is not a woman's name. Whatever an American website tells you.

I would pronounce it in the Spanish way - Hi-may.

Exactly.

Jamie, or Jaime is not a woman's name. Whatever an American website tells you.

I live in NZ - it's a common name for women here, and I've seen both spellings (as well as others). Just because it might not be common in the UK doesn't mean it's the same in other parts of the world.