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Jessamy- could you? would you? have you?

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WottingerAndWottingerAreDead · 07/08/2011 23:40

I LOVE this name, popular in 1800's as far as I can tell? Jesse for short? But what would you think if you heard it, or if you know a Jessamy, what did you think?

It's a boys name btw.

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EricNorthmansMistressOfPotions · 08/08/2011 11:23

I actually like it, but only know it as a boy's name. I wouldn't use it though, bit out there. If I met a female Jessamy I'd assume her parents had got confused.

minipie · 08/08/2011 11:01

I think it's a lovely name for a girl (though I marginally prefer Jessamyn or Jessamine)

It's an old English form of Jasmine.

I wouldn't use it for a boy though.

wineandcheese · 08/08/2011 10:58

I met a Jessamy once; she would be in her early 30s now and came from Australia. So it sounds like a girls name to me. Just my view; if you love it, go for it!

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 08/08/2011 07:43

No, no, no as a boy's name, it sounds very feminine to me, although I've never heard of it before. Namecalling potential too, a right Jessie.

InstantAtom · 08/08/2011 07:39

It's nice but I thought it was a girls' name.

Josiah, Joshua, Jasper, Jedediah, Jared, Jerome, Justin?

Offspring · 08/08/2011 02:39

I knew a Jessamy who would have been born in the 1920's - female though. She was always known as Sally and I didn't know her real name until her funeral.

SecretNutellaFix · 08/08/2011 00:15

I knew a Jessamy at school- she was in my sisters year. So Girl's name imo.

madwomanintheattic · 07/08/2011 23:51

my sister was going to use jessamy for a girl.

fortunately she had a boy.

the entire family was much relieved. it may well have been popular in the 1800s (?) but to my uncultured ears it sounded like a cut and shut made up name a la kortneemai or kyleeann.

probably says more about me. but hey ho.

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WottingerAndWottingerAreDead · 07/08/2011 23:49

Just googled and a few Jessamy's now who are all girls now, you're right. But in the book I read Jessamy was a man, so wonder if it crossed over as a name? Hmmm... damn!

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acsec · 07/08/2011 23:44

Jessamy imo is a girls name - I loved a book when I was younger called Jessamy - she was a she