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Jacinta

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Roopoo · 08/11/2009 13:34

What's the verdict???

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Marioandluigi · 12/11/2009 09:35

DS has a book called 'Ouch I need a plaster', and one of the children who needs a plaster is 'Jacinta who has a splinter'

That would put me off, but I also think te name is horrid too - sorry.

muminthemiddle · 11/11/2009 23:14

I have heard this used and quite like it.

Sibble · 11/11/2009 05:51

I know a very lovely Jacinta who's in her 30's. I like it.

nooka · 11/11/2009 05:47

I wouldn't use it if my other dd was Matilda - sounds a bit too matching to me (unless there are nicknames involved).

MaggieMonday · 10/11/2009 11:08

Mathanxiety, I x-posted with myself!! not sure what happened there, I think I thought my first one hadn't worked!

NowtonTelly · 09/11/2009 21:13

Horrid. Was popular a generation or two ago in Ireland.

mathanxiety · 09/11/2009 19:41

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mathanxiety · 09/11/2009 19:40

It's very popular in Ireland because one of the children from Fatima in Portugal who saw an apparition of Mary in 1917 was named Jacinta. It's a version of Hyacinth. It's usually pronounced with the J sound in Ireland, but I don't think this is the case in the original language. Another variation is Cynthia. I really love it. I think it would go with Matilda.

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.

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

There you go!

CantSleepWontSleep · 09/11/2009 14:54

Not nice.

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.

Bumperlicioso · 09/11/2009 09:37

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

Disenchanted3 · 09/11/2009 08:51

I don't like it, sorry.

MamaLazarou · 09/11/2009 08:48

I think it goes with Matilda, yes.

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

skymoo · 08/11/2009 22:18

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

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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Roopoo · 08/11/2009 22:14

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

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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

GibbonInARibbon · 08/11/2009 19:24

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

sarah293 · 08/11/2009 19:15

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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.

GibbonInARibbon · 08/11/2009 18:59
branflake81 · 08/11/2009 18:52

simply horrid

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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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