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Help[Opinions] Re: Jennifer
in reply to a message by Lily
In my generation, it was not common at all. There was one Jennifer in my high school of about 750.
Now starting about ten years after I was born, it began to become very popular, as is commonly known. I believe it was the number one name for quite a few years.
Let me see...there was the Jennifer I went to high school with, back in the mid-70's my sister had a friend who named her baby Jennifer, a few years later in the early 80's she had another friend whose little girl was named Jennifer, my husband and I had friends who named their baby Jennifer in 1984, and my daughter had a childhood friend named Jennifer in the late 80's. I guess that makes five.
The high school Jennifer went by her full name, as did my daughter's childhood friend. The others I am not sure about.
Just judging the name by its own merits, leaving aside issues of popularity, I think it's just an okay name. I like the first syllable, but don't care much for the "fer" ending. I feel the opposite of you in that I like the nickname Jenny more than the full form Jennifer.
By taking into consideration other issues, to me, it was so mega-popular in my youth that I will always consider it to be unimaginative and to consider anyone who uses it to be following a herd mentality and not caring if their daughter gets lost in a crowd. I will always have that image of it, even though it's no longer as popular as it once was. I remember back in 1984, when my husband and I received the birth announcement from our friends stating that they had named their daughter Jennifer, I rolled my eyes and said, "Come on. Couldn't they have put a little more thought into it?" That will always be my reaction.
Now starting about ten years after I was born, it began to become very popular, as is commonly known. I believe it was the number one name for quite a few years.
Let me see...there was the Jennifer I went to high school with, back in the mid-70's my sister had a friend who named her baby Jennifer, a few years later in the early 80's she had another friend whose little girl was named Jennifer, my husband and I had friends who named their baby Jennifer in 1984, and my daughter had a childhood friend named Jennifer in the late 80's. I guess that makes five.
The high school Jennifer went by her full name, as did my daughter's childhood friend. The others I am not sure about.
Just judging the name by its own merits, leaving aside issues of popularity, I think it's just an okay name. I like the first syllable, but don't care much for the "fer" ending. I feel the opposite of you in that I like the nickname Jenny more than the full form Jennifer.
By taking into consideration other issues, to me, it was so mega-popular in my youth that I will always consider it to be unimaginative and to consider anyone who uses it to be following a herd mentality and not caring if their daughter gets lost in a crowd. I will always have that image of it, even though it's no longer as popular as it once was. I remember back in 1984, when my husband and I received the birth announcement from our friends stating that they had named their daughter Jennifer, I rolled my eyes and said, "Come on. Couldn't they have put a little more thought into it?" That will always be my reaction.
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