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Jax - what do people think?

127 replies

lily91 · 17/08/2016 16:42

Have always loved the name Jax for a boy? I'm 16 weeks pregnant so still unsure of the sex at present but we have definitely decided on a name for a girl but still pondering on the name Jax for a boy!

The middle name would be George.

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villainousbroodmare · 17/08/2016 20:58

Please consider Jack. Then you can call him Jax but he will still have a mainstream name which is not widely-used slang for toilet.

SuperHeroesForKids · 17/08/2016 20:59

Meh about the Irish Jacks thing-doesn't bother me in the slightest. I won't be telling Jacks brother though as that would be eternal ammunition!

No one has to like it op. The general consensus is that Jax is a terrible name, however -like I said - I like it but have Jackson on his birth certificate.

You might even have a girl yet op! What's your chosen girls name?

CordeliaFrost · 17/08/2016 21:04

I think of Jacksonville International Airport, in Florida. JAX is its airport code.

I agree with previous suggestions of Jackson, and then using Jax as a shortening of it.

SoftBlocks · 17/08/2016 21:08

Jack is nice.

Thundercake · 17/08/2016 21:09

I hear jax and I think 'toilet'. I'm in Ireland

MrsGsnow18 · 17/08/2016 21:14

I know you said Dublin squoosh but another poster had said if he ever moved to Ireland in general it would be an issue.
I didn't know that was a parody site I just googled Jax as slang for toilet because I had never heard it.

spankhurst · 17/08/2016 21:15

I don't like it, sorry OP.

AncientBallerina · 17/08/2016 21:23

In the name of God don't call the child Jax if he is ever likely to live in Dublin (or meet Dublin people)
Anyone remember that shop Cecil Gee?Grin

WaitrosePigeon · 17/08/2016 21:29

What on earth is it? No I don't like it.

squoosh · 17/08/2016 21:29

I pity any poor sod with the surname Gee living in Dublin!

Life would be very trying indeed.

AncientBallerina · 17/08/2016 21:42
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rachelgreep · 17/08/2016 22:47

In Ireland Jax/Jacks is slang for toilet.
HTH

BettyCrystal · 17/08/2016 22:54

Have you really never called the toilet the jacks, MrsG? I thought it was used all over Ireland. Same as folk would say the john, across the pond. To me Jax = toilet. Sorry OP!

Lilacpink40 · 17/08/2016 22:57

Isn't, or was, Ajax a cleaning fluid?

That would put me off.

HatePaperDoll · 17/08/2016 23:05

I'm in NI and would associate jacks with toilet. I did used to go out with a Dub many years ago so I may have picked it up from him.

Alisvolatpropiis · 17/08/2016 23:50

It's awful.

DPotter · 18/08/2016 00:02

Jax to me is a female character from Star Trek.

suit2845321oie · 18/08/2016 00:05

No, it's awful, as is Jaxon, on par with Kai, Kayden, Jayden and other similar names

StormyTeaCup · 18/08/2016 00:06

I don't like it at all sorry. Jack would be much nicer with Jax as a nn.

Sophronia · 18/08/2016 00:06

Jax is terrible. Jack or Jackson are much better.

SuperHeroesForKids · 18/08/2016 00:08

You forgot Hayden suit

sailawaywithme · 18/08/2016 00:09

I'm sorry but I think it's frightful. As is Jaxon - or indeed any other name that gratuitously replaces a perfectly good "cks" with an "x".

With George, it sounds even worse. Seriously, don't you hear yourself when you say it?

HitsAndMrs · 18/08/2016 00:36

Awful. I know of a newborn called jaxx (yes, that's how it's spelt) Hmm

KoalaDownUnder · 18/08/2016 00:42

Hideous. Sorry.

Anonymouses · 18/08/2016 01:01

Jax is cleaning stuff to me. Also yes to the jaxie thing. Sorry op stick with George orbs k to the drawing board!