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Jane

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Whoneedsleep · 30/10/2022 18:11

Timeless or boring?

Has anyone any ideas of other timeless classics?

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EmilyGilmoresSass · 09/11/2022 20:10

Potato28 · 30/10/2022 18:12

Jane is the next name after Karen

I wouldnt

Says who ffs

Enko · 09/11/2022 20:05

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/11/2022 18:40

Didn't Princess Diana have a sister called Jane? I prefer the name Jane to Diana.

Yes her sisters are Jane and Sarah

I always thought she got the nice name they got the dull boring ones

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/11/2022 18:40

Didn't Princess Diana have a sister called Jane? I prefer the name Jane to Diana.

sashya1982 · 09/11/2022 18:12

Let a member of the British Royal Family name a child Jane, and the monarchy-loving public would be all over it! They would just LOVE the name, then!

xPeaceX · 06/11/2022 18:31

Love Robert and Richard
Robbie or Richie

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/11/2022 18:03

Forgot Robert and Richard!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/11/2022 18:03

My favourite boys' names are James and David, neither of which my husband liked. He wanted Thomas, which I was a bit meh about. We settled on another classic name which we both liked but not as our top favourite.

Other classic names similar to Jane in feel:
Alexander
Edward/Edmund/Edmond
Henry
Frank
George
Charles
Benjamin
Frederick
William
John/Jonathan
Joseph
Walter

Gummibär · 06/11/2022 17:43

John!

Kanaloa · 06/11/2022 17:25

Aww congrats op! I think the make version is the very obvious John! Although we had a boy name all picked out for dd then when she came we chose something on a different scale, no similarity in sound/length/origin etc.

Longdarkcloud · 06/11/2022 17:19

That would be
James
Jonathan
Jonty
Julian
Jolyan
or David

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Whoneedsleep · 06/11/2022 16:01

Thankyou everyone!

Turns out this baby isn’t a girl as first thought. Boy version of jane welcome 😂

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Rockmehardplace · 06/11/2022 15:33

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Rockmehardplace · 06/11/2022 15:30

i really like Jane and think it sounds fresh in a sea of Lilly/Evie’s. i also know a lovely Jane nn Janey and love the nn too.

Anna is classic and gorgeous. or what about

Sadie
Ruby
Laura
Lois
Nina
Naomi
Cara

Billslills · 06/11/2022 11:26

I really like Jane. Also other suggestions of Hermione. I prefer Annabelle to Anna and Clara lovely but going by this board I think it’s quite popular now and it’s tainted it for me?

Jamimas · 06/11/2022 10:16

I actually like Jane and feel it's due a comeback

Hdaniels11 · 04/11/2022 17:09

boring sorry

SemperIdem · 04/11/2022 14:52

Jane I think is a classic.

It’s less offensively dull than Sarah and Anna, probably because it feels less generic and bland due to being more unusual these days. Those are both classics too.

PleaseYourselfandEatTheCrusts · 01/11/2022 21:45

I thought that Stranger Things might make Jane more popular but it didn't seem to.

KirstenBlest · 01/11/2022 06:47

@Luredbyapomegranate , it's not a Welsh spelling anyway.

Luredbyapomegranate · 31/10/2022 23:11

Pieceofpurplesky · 30/10/2022 21:23

Why low rent @Luredbyapomegranate ? It's the Welsh spelling

Statistically the OP isn’t likely to be Welsh.

It’s an English cultural ref

AliceMcK · 31/10/2022 21:28

I like Jane, I may be bias as its my middle name.

I also think it’s a timeless classic. There are lots of famous Janes through history, Jane Austen, Jane Seymour (Henry VIIIs wife and the famous actress), Jane Fonda, Jane Russell, Jane ??? ( I can never remember her name but she was the mum in Malcom in the Middle), Jane Adams (civil rights leader and Nobel prize winner), Jane Horrocks, one of my favourite actresses, loved her in Littel Voice.

I don’t think it’s plain at all.

JanetSally · 31/10/2022 20:12

pamshortsbrokenbothherlegs · 31/10/2022 15:48

Agree with this.

Jane is lovely OP, I imagine her to be confident, self possessed and quite cool. In the same vein:

Mary
Frances (my fave here)
Helen
Ruth
Beth
Anne
Sarah

Some of the names suggested previously hit very different notes imo, but then that's the interesting thing about names - we all see different things in them.

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Helen is lovely. In the same vein as Jane I think. Classic and simple.

KirstenBlest · 31/10/2022 16:05

@Pieceofpurplesky , my neighbour when I was little was called Jinny, but it was Jane written down. We called her Nain [her house name] or Mrs [typical welsh surname].
There seemed to be fewer first names in use compared to today.

pamshortsbrokenbothherlegs · 31/10/2022 15:48

JanetSally · 31/10/2022 11:38

I think it's beautiful. It's certainly not a name used by unimaginative people.

Unimaginative people follow the latest trend and use a name that's everywhere at the moment.

Agree with this.

Jane is lovely OP, I imagine her to be confident, self possessed and quite cool. In the same vein:

Mary
Frances (my fave here)
Helen
Ruth
Beth
Anne
Sarah

Some of the names suggested previously hit very different notes imo, but then that's the interesting thing about names - we all see different things in them.

Pieceofpurplesky · 31/10/2022 15:41

I know Siân is the literal translation. The point I was trying to make was that it wasn't a name made up in the 60s and was not low rent.
Interesting your pronunciation as jigh-ney as my great grandmother was always called 'Jinny' as a nickname. She was Jayne, born 1860 ish and named after family. Probably from the old surname.

I prefer Jane anyway - just defending my GGM!