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Jessica will never make my short list, but I really like the bright sound of it and have been enjoying playing around with it in combos lately. Look how it sparkles!
Jessica Diana
Jessica Artemisia Nymphadora
Jessica Star
And then I was working on sticking it with really ugly clompy names, just for contrast:
Jessica Ermengarde
Jessica Maud
(On a similar note, I assembled a list in my listbook called "Why I Love Simon. Look at all of the colors Simon can have!
Simon Francis
Simon Francis Benedict
Simon Peter
Simon Joseph
Simon Arthur
Simon Rudolph
Simon Crow [array's])
Anyway wdyt? How else would you dress up Jessica?
Jessica Diana
Jessica Artemisia Nymphadora
Jessica Star
And then I was working on sticking it with really ugly clompy names, just for contrast:
Jessica Ermengarde
Jessica Maud
(On a similar note, I assembled a list in my listbook called "Why I Love Simon. Look at all of the colors Simon can have!
Simon Francis
Simon Francis Benedict
Simon Peter
Simon Joseph
Simon Arthur
Simon Rudolph
Simon Crow [array's])
Anyway wdyt? How else would you dress up Jessica?
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I wouldn't dress it up.
Jessica is a name I truly dislike. I have a cousin who has this name, and she is perhaps one of the only people I have ever met who I truly like. I also have a friend who goes by Jess, and I love her too. But just about every other one I've ever met (and everyone has met more than one or two Jessicas... who could not? The name was so popular!) has been snotty or full of herself. No offense is meant to those who have this name. I did list some exceptions.
Jessica just seems like one of those eighties names that is supposed to conjure up wealthy, country-club white girls. Ugh. I really dislike these sorts of names. It reminds me of Ashley and Tiffany and Crystal.
Jessica is a name I truly dislike. I have a cousin who has this name, and she is perhaps one of the only people I have ever met who I truly like. I also have a friend who goes by Jess, and I love her too. But just about every other one I've ever met (and everyone has met more than one or two Jessicas... who could not? The name was so popular!) has been snotty or full of herself. No offense is meant to those who have this name. I did list some exceptions.
Jessica just seems like one of those eighties names that is supposed to conjure up wealthy, country-club white girls. Ugh. I really dislike these sorts of names. It reminds me of Ashley and Tiffany and Crystal.
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Yeah, that's how it seemed to me for a while. That's how a lot of names used to seem to me, until I became more and more namenerdy and managed to somewhat distance myself from common/vibes to look at the quality of names I like. That's how I've come to like Jessica and Amelia and Bianca and Emily and and Gabriel and Ethan and Adrian, and several others.) (And Maud and Griselda and Ermengarde, and Arthur and Harold and George.) (And I rather like Tiffany. But I wouldn't use it like I wouldn't use Jessica.)
It's very liberating, really. :P But I wouldn't use 80's-fab names praactically because there are many great names that aren't 80's-fab. So.
It's very liberating, really. :P But I wouldn't use 80's-fab names praactically because there are many great names that aren't 80's-fab. So.
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I know so many...
There are four Jessicas in my grade at school. Two of them have the same last name and the same middle initial. The secretary gets really frustrated:
"Jessica Jones, please come to guidance." Then, five minutes later: "Would the OTHER Jessica Jones please come to guidance?"
She tried doing it by grade: "Jessica Jones, tenth grade, please come to guidance." Then, five minutes later, "Jessica ALEXIS Jones, tenth grade, please come to guidance?"
So she tried, "Jessica A. Jones, tenth grade, please come to guidance." I think they both went that day, because there was no follow-up, or maybe the right one happened to feel like going. :D But I do know their middle names both start with A: Alexis and Ann.
We call the four of them Jess, Jessie, JB, and Jessica. (Jess and Jessie are the Jessica A. Jones girls.)
I do like the name, I suppose, although I'd never considered it before.
Jessica Star and Jessica Maud are nice. I also like Jessica Niamh, Jessica Maeve, and Jessica Xanthe. But please, don't ever use Jessica Alexis or Jessica Ann! lol
There are four Jessicas in my grade at school. Two of them have the same last name and the same middle initial. The secretary gets really frustrated:
"Jessica Jones, please come to guidance." Then, five minutes later: "Would the OTHER Jessica Jones please come to guidance?"
She tried doing it by grade: "Jessica Jones, tenth grade, please come to guidance." Then, five minutes later, "Jessica ALEXIS Jones, tenth grade, please come to guidance?"
So she tried, "Jessica A. Jones, tenth grade, please come to guidance." I think they both went that day, because there was no follow-up, or maybe the right one happened to feel like going. :D But I do know their middle names both start with A: Alexis and Ann.
We call the four of them Jess, Jessie, JB, and Jessica. (Jess and Jessie are the Jessica A. Jones girls.)
I do like the name, I suppose, although I'd never considered it before.
Jessica Star and Jessica Maud are nice. I also like Jessica Niamh, Jessica Maeve, and Jessica Xanthe. But please, don't ever use Jessica Alexis or Jessica Ann! lol
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I was thinking about Jessica the other day. I've never really appreciated it before, but it's really beautiful. I think, because of it's popularity and "datedness" it might feel more interesting as a middle name.
Alice Jessica
Mary Jessica
Helen Jessica
Cordelia Jessica (I think it's a bit more subtle than say, Ophelia Juliet with the Shakesperean tones)
Ruth Jessica
Clare Jessica
Doesn't it feel much more special in the mn spot?
Alice Jessica
Mary Jessica
Helen Jessica
Cordelia Jessica (I think it's a bit more subtle than say, Ophelia Juliet with the Shakesperean tones)
Ruth Jessica
Clare Jessica
Doesn't it feel much more special in the mn spot?
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Jessica is out for me because I know seven or eight in the same age brackets, three of them are in my grade at school and have to go by Jess, Jessi and Jessika. (It is spelled with a 'c' legally, but this might be part of where names like Krystyannalynn come from... parents who grew up with a common name want to be unique, but don't really know how, except elaborating on names they already know.)
Based purely on sound, Jessica is rather pretty and bright though. I like Simon too.
Based purely on sound, Jessica is rather pretty and bright though. I like Simon too.
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I would love Jessica if it weren't a) so common and somewhat dated for people born in the 70s/early 80s b) considered tacky is Italy, as most "new" names of American influence.
Jessica Artemisia is lovely (please no Nymphadora!)
Simon is one of those names I just don't get. It's not remotely ugly, but I don't understand why everyone here likes it so much. It's kinda of boring. However, Arthur's really growing on me!
Jessica Artemisia is lovely (please no Nymphadora!)
Simon is one of those names I just don't get. It's not remotely ugly, but I don't understand why everyone here likes it so much. It's kinda of boring. However, Arthur's really growing on me!
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Yeah, it's dated/common/tacky here too, it'll never make my short list.
..Which is why I don't mind sticking Nymphadora with it :P
Simon seems so ... I don't know. It just seems perfect to me. It's so holy with Francis and Benedict, so old-testament with Joseph, so wise and ornery with Crow, so bold with Rudolph, so intelligent with Arthur. And as a first name, it's so simple and distinctive and handsome, but with a certain edge to it that nothing else has. The long I, the slick S. A dignity, but a strange kind of dignity...
...no one in the real world things this hard about names. I love Simon very much though.
..Which is why I don't mind sticking Nymphadora with it :P
Simon seems so ... I don't know. It just seems perfect to me. It's so holy with Francis and Benedict, so old-testament with Joseph, so wise and ornery with Crow, so bold with Rudolph, so intelligent with Arthur. And as a first name, it's so simple and distinctive and handsome, but with a certain edge to it that nothing else has. The long I, the slick S. A dignity, but a strange kind of dignity...
...no one in the real world things this hard about names. I love Simon very much though.
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I also enjoy Simon.
I think Jessica does have a certain snappiness to it that I could find appealing given enough chronological distance from the 1980s. Jessica Catherine is kind of cool. My sister Jessica used Catherine as her Confirmation name back when she was Catholic, and I do think that's pretty.
I think Jessica does have a certain snappiness to it that I could find appealing given enough chronological distance from the 1980s. Jessica Catherine is kind of cool. My sister Jessica used Catherine as her Confirmation name back when she was Catholic, and I do think that's pretty.
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Agreed! I just wish it wasn't so darn popular. Jessica Diana and Jessica Maud are fantastic. Some others off the top of my head (I don't think I've ever made Jessica combo's before!)
Jessica Maureen
Jessica June
Jessica Jean
Jessica Mathilde
Jessica Tempest - Tempest is a GP of mine; most on here don't usually care for it, lol.
Jessica Alix - According to Bear, Alix is an old German form of Alice.
Jessica Sylvie
Jessica Carol / Carole
Jessica Marta / Martha
Jessica Lucia - Either pronunciation sounds good to me.
Jessica Mara
Jessica Laure / Laura
Jessica Lisette
Jessica Nina
Jessica Susan / Suzanne - Suzanne really spices Jessica up, I think.
Jessica Frances
Jessica Montserrat
Jessica Pearl
Jessica Miguela
I almost suggested Jessica Rose but everyone my age has some combination of those, and Jessica Domenica but it's super rhymey.
Jessica Maureen
Jessica June
Jessica Jean
Jessica Mathilde
Jessica Tempest - Tempest is a GP of mine; most on here don't usually care for it, lol.
Jessica Alix - According to Bear, Alix is an old German form of Alice.
Jessica Sylvie
Jessica Carol / Carole
Jessica Marta / Martha
Jessica Lucia - Either pronunciation sounds good to me.
Jessica Mara
Jessica Laure / Laura
Jessica Lisette
Jessica Nina
Jessica Susan / Suzanne - Suzanne really spices Jessica up, I think.
Jessica Frances
Jessica Montserrat
Jessica Pearl
Jessica Miguela
I almost suggested Jessica Rose but everyone my age has some combination of those, and Jessica Domenica but it's super rhymey.
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I actually know a Jessica Diana, I thought I had typed that I did :P She had her FN/MN as her display name on myspace, and that was the first time I thought "Wow, that's really pretty."
Jessica Jean/June is cute as heck. And I love Jessica Tempest! Very shakespearey. (Of course Jessica is more or less a GP for me too because of the common/dated/blah mess, so I don't mind ridiculous combos for it.)
And I love Alix actually, I puzzle over how I love it but I do. I have a medieval ancestor named Alix and I've always thought it was mysterious and beautiful. Which is weird, becuase Alex bores me.
I actually like Jessica Rose and Jessica Marie very, very much, despite how common they are.
Jessica Jean/June is cute as heck. And I love Jessica Tempest! Very shakespearey. (Of course Jessica is more or less a GP for me too because of the common/dated/blah mess, so I don't mind ridiculous combos for it.)
And I love Alix actually, I puzzle over how I love it but I do. I have a medieval ancestor named Alix and I've always thought it was mysterious and beautiful. Which is weird, becuase Alex bores me.
I actually like Jessica Rose and Jessica Marie very, very much, despite how common they are.
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I love Jessica, it was in the top ten for Valerie's name.
Jessica Ashley
Jessica Bonita
Jessica Araceli
Jessica Hailey
Jessica Ivy
Jessica Lauren
Jessica Lorelei
Jessica Marlene
Jessica Leilani
Jessica Natasha
Jessica Opal
Jessica Regina
Jessica Suzanne
Jessica Estelle
Jessica Tamara
Jessica Valerie
Jessica Yvonne
Jessica Ashley
Jessica Bonita
Jessica Araceli
Jessica Hailey
Jessica Ivy
Jessica Lauren
Jessica Lorelei
Jessica Marlene
Jessica Leilani
Jessica Natasha
Jessica Opal
Jessica Regina
Jessica Suzanne
Jessica Estelle
Jessica Tamara
Jessica Valerie
Jessica Yvonne
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Ooh I love Jessica Ivy and Jessica Suzanne. So snappy. I like a lot of these actually.
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