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| Sun, 02-25-2007 - 9:24pm |
Do you like the name "Jessie" for a Girl?
- yes
- no
- not sure
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I voted "no" because I don't like it as a full name, it is very nicknamey to me. She would need something to fall back on for adult life- Jessica nn Jessie or another Jess- name would be nice (Jessabel maybe?).
-Nikki
Jessie reminds me Jessica, which sounds dated IMO.
Here are some names you might like:
Joselyn, nn Josie
Hadley
Sadie
Adeline, nn Addie
Geneva, nn Ginny/Evie
Jordana
Margaret, nn Maggie
Megan, nn Maggie
Danica, nn Dani
Good luck,
Brooke
My best friend's name is Jesse Kate (no 'i'!). She's 26 now and it's never been considered girly or cutesy, so I would go with it - although I prefer Jesse over Jessie. She has never had a problem with it not being a proper name, in fact really dislikes it when people try lengthen it to Jessica.
I also know a Jessamy - another 'full' version if you don't like Jessica.
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I prefer Jesse for a boy. I'd like to see a longer name on a girl.
Alternatives to Jessica:
Jenessa
Jerusha
Jesenia/Jessenia
Jessa
Jessalyn
Jessamine/Jessamyn
Thank you,
Miranda : )
Definitely spell it Jessie... Jesse is the male version, I'm not sure why you would name her the male version when there is a completely nice female spelling?
It would be like naming your daughter Aaron rather than Erin, or vice versa... nms.
-Nikki
I had good friend in school with the name Jessie Marie. She did not like her name and always went by her middle name.
-Jamie
There's certainly precedent for just Jessie, my grandmother-in-law, for one, was Jessie Elizabeth Beryl LN. I still think it is best kept as a short form, though. I'd also definitely stick to the feminine spelling, going with Jesse would give her a lifetime of correcting people on her gender and the spelling.
(As an aside, though... Nikki/nat_c_123, my daughter went to kindergarten with a girl named Aaron. Her father was Irish and her mother Jewish, so while it wasn't to my taste, I thought it an interesting compromise. The teacher always called her "Double A." There was a girl Ryan in the class as well.)
I'm not a fan of Jessica, extremely dated and grossly overused not long ago, but still I would prefer it to just Jessie. My favourite option would be Jessamyn, but I think you may have expressed a dislike for that in another thread (my apologies if I'm confusing you with someone else). Jessa is probably the easiest solution, it doesn't really have the benefit of being a 'longer' form, in a literal sense, or a more traditional name, but it does sound like a complete name, not a nickname. If anything, Jessa is actually closer to the Biblical name Iscah or Jesca which Shakespeare turned into Jessica for "The Merchant of Venice."
There is another possibility, though it's a bit more of a stretch to modern ears. Long before anyone but the theatre-going had heard of the name Jessica, Jessie was used in Scotland as a nickname for Janet or Jean. (Oddly enough, Jenny was also first used as a Scottish nickname for Janet, back when Jennifer was just an obscure Cornish variant of Guinevere and centuries before that name would top the popularity charts together with Jessica). You could justify using Jessie as a nickname for Janet or related feminine forms of John... Janetta, Jeanette, Jane, Jean, Jeanne, Jehanne, Joan, etc. Most of those, admittedly, are out-of-favour now, but Jane and Jeanne are showing signs of revival, and Janetta is not far off popular semi-made-up forms like Janelle or Janessa (which I suppose could lead to Jessie as well, now that I think of it, though it's rather too "creative" for my liking). Many people might not recognize the link between Jessie and these names, but if you plan on always calling her Jessie that shouldn't be a huge concern, and it at least gives her a more formal, adult name to fall back on.
Thanks,
Miranda
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