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We'd like to honour my father in law, but need a female name. Not Jacqueline please!

Jacqui out too?

Yeah, definitely.

Joan as Jack is for John?

Jacintha? I know how to spell it but pronouncing it is a different matter.

jass-in-ther

I know a girl called Jack. Just Jack. It suits her

Yes...although when you google it the first thing that comes up is the nurse that killed herself following the Hoax phone call to Kate Middleton's hospital...

I think you're going to struggle.

There's Jackson - but is traditionally a boys name.

Could you not just use a J name to honour fil?

Thanks Cakes.

Jade?

i do know someone called Jacaranda. she is always known as Jac.

i am not sure that is the right spelling though.

Aiieee, too 'Goody'. Sorry, being picky here, thank you all for your suggestions!

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Do you like any female versions of John?
Jacquetta? The mother of the White Queen (Elizabeth Woodville).

Second Jacintha. Bit Chalet School but nice.

I was going to say Lucy, because I read once a theory that Jack was popular because it was the closest name to the word Luck. And I guess Lucy is the female name most like Lucky. But that might be a bit too roundabout!!

Ooh Jacquetta, that's interesting....

I'm a Jacinta, pronounced Jass-in-Ta

Jane has the same meaning I think (god is gracious).

Joanna, derived from Jane, both female versions of John.

Does "Jill" have too much of a nursery rhyme feel?

Can't use Jill, is also a family name

Or you could translate John, so Giovanni/ Giovanna?

This might help www.thinkbabynames.com/beginning/0/Jac (but really, no-one calls their child "Jackette", do they?!)