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Jacinta

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Roopoo · 08/11/2009 13:34

What's the verdict???

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MrsWoolf · 08/11/2009 13:38

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gigglewitch · 08/11/2009 13:44

I love it, I know one, she's 13yo, she's the brightest bubbliest teen you could ever meet

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MamaLazarou · 08/11/2009 14:46

It's unutterably beautiful. Does it mean 'hyacinth'? There aren't enough Jacintas in the world.

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MrsWoolf · 08/11/2009 14:53

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differentID · 08/11/2009 15:06

I know 2- both lovely women. One my mothers age, and the other a bit younger than me.

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victoriascrumptious · 08/11/2009 16:47

How do you pronounce Jacinta?

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pointydogg · 08/11/2009 16:48

don't like it

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victoriascrumptious · 08/11/2009 16:52

Jah-sin-ta? It's rare around these parts, in fact i've never met anyone with that name or heard in before. If it's said Jah-sin-ta I like it.

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Roopoo · 08/11/2009 17:16

Yep that's how it's prounounced..
I do love it.........

Does it go with Matilda??

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branflake81 · 08/11/2009 18:52

simply horrid

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GibbonInARibbon · 08/11/2009 18:59
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bellissima · 08/11/2009 19:14

As children we used to call my sister, Jacqueline, 'Jacinthe' as a kind of 'exotic' take on her name. Not sure I would use in real grown up life though.

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sarah293 · 08/11/2009 19:15

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GibbonInARibbon · 08/11/2009 19:24

It's heard more often in Ireland, not at all unusual there.

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salvadory · 08/11/2009 22:10

Very Irish (all ones I know are either old Irish ladies or have Irish parents) and I love it, would pick it but Dh says no

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Roopoo · 08/11/2009 22:14

I just read in in a book and fell in love with it...

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VerityBrulee · 08/11/2009 22:15

Oooh, that's one of those names thats set's my teeth on edge, would have been popular in parts of Dublin in the '70s.

So that would be a no.

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skymoo · 08/11/2009 22:18

Jacinta was the name of a trawler my dad was on!

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lotspot · 09/11/2009 01:07

I know two, both 16/17

and in my opinion it is a really horrible name!! actually....it might even compete for being my most disliked name!!!

Sorry to all Jacintas but it does something funny to me

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MamaLazarou · 09/11/2009 08:48

I think it goes with Matilda, yes.

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Disenchanted3 · 09/11/2009 08:51

I don't like it, sorry.

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Bumperlicioso · 09/11/2009 09:37

Don't like, though I DO list Jocasta, but it rhymes with out surname

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MaggieMonday · 09/11/2009 14:48

Really not keen, although I know a lovely woman whose real name is Jacinta. She goes by Jazzy though. Much nicer.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 09/11/2009 14:54

Not nice.

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MaggieMonday · 09/11/2009 14:59

A lovely girl I know is called this. It's not unusual in Ireland for some reason. My friend goes by Jazzy though. Much less holy roller than Jacinta.

Post-google

Jacinat and Francisco were two children who witnessed the apparition of 'our lady' at Fatima in 1917!!!

There you go!

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