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(55 Posts)What do you think of it?
I knew one when I was a kid but I'd completely forgotten about it until today and I quite like it
Yuck.
Sorry!
What?
Seriously?
No.
I think it's awful, sorry.
The only one I know of is Jonjo Shelvey.
Surely it must have been a nickname for something. Sounds like a scary clown's name to me though!
I can only think of the jockey Jonjo O'Neill. His real name is John Joseph.
I know two. One is John Joseph and the other is Jonathan. Neither of them are actually called Jonjo.
Yeah it’s a shortening of John Joseph.
I knew one as a kid, he was a horrid little bully so that’s kind of tainted it...
Sounds like fanjo
Popular with the travelling community if that helps
Really?
Why not be all contemporaneous and have BoJo?
I know a Jonathan who is known as Jonjo. Couldn't be further removed from the travelling community.
I'm not sure it works for an adult.
It’s not a name. Also far too similar to Bojo.
Sounds like fanjo
Deffo a traveller name!
I know one. Again his name is John Joseph. It suits the Johnjo I know. Personally I would go with John Joseph to give him other options.
Lovely as a nickname. Not so keen as a standalone
Awful, please don’t.
I would have to agree that it is popular with the Irish Traveller community. That wouldn't put me off but in that community children are usually named after relatives. Fathers side then mothers so John-jo is likely to be a diminutive of John Joseph which would be an elders name , shortened to distinguish them. If you call your baby John Joseph and then give him Johnjo as a nickname I think that would be quite sweet as long as he could use John on its own as an adult or at school. John as a boys name is pretty unusual nowadays.
I just think of it as a nickname, not a proper name at all.
I also know one that's a Jonathan. I think only his mum calls him that these days.
The next child could be called BillyBob?! Apologies but it’s dreadful
Just about ok for a cute baby. A grown man?
I also know it as a traveller name.
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