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My 10 week old baby boy is called Jesse. I like it but recently many people have been asking whether it’s a girl or boy. Although I don’t mind this, he may as he gets older and I don’t want to make life hard for him.

Should I change it now?

YANBU: Jesse
YABU: change name

Keep it.
But be proactive in dropping in the words 'he' and 'son' when introducing him as it will save their embarrassment and your upset.

I love the name .. keep it

I love it. I immediately think of a boy when I hear it.

Keep it. We nearly called our DS2 Jesse. I think it's a lovely name!

Love it for a boy! Can't get 'I wish I had Jesse's girl' out of my head now!

He;s 10 weeks old, it's his name

Leave it

Keep it. He will start looking like a boy soon.

I like it, I would leave it

Ooh keep it, my absolute favourite boys name. I've stopped now with 2 girls but if either of them would've been a boy this is the name I would've chosen 💕💙

Jesse was on our shortlist... once he’s a little older if will be immediately obvious he’s a boy and no one will need to ask

It’s a lovely name, I’d keep it

once he’s a little older if will be immediately obvious he’s a boy and no one will need to ask

This.

You should keep it, I got told by a lady earlier ‘don’t lose his bootie’ my dd had a pink hat on it’s just babies they all look very similar when so young

First time I've seen Mumsnet completely complimentary about a name.

Good sign. Keep it.

Keep it. Beautiful Bible name. I think it's one of the loveliest boys names ever.

@Chillychili

You should keep it, I got told by a lady earlier ‘don’t lose his bootie’ my dd had a pink hat on it’s just babies they all look very similar when so young

Probably a mumsnetter who doesn’t believe pink clothes are girly! 🤣 🙄

My DD has a girls name, although it's not super common but it is very much a girls name. When she was a baby, strangers used to call her a boy even though she was wearing pink and they'd confuse her name with a vaguely similar boys name. Don't worry too much about other people's reactions! They'd do this no matter what his name was & find some way to confuse things. Now she is older, nobody confuses her sex. And if they did, she would put them right back in their place like others have said, it's a temporary issue and one which would likely happen irrespective of what name you'd picked.

DS’s friend’s brother is called Jesse and no one thinks he’s a girl now that he’s about 7. He has longish hair too.

If you like the name, keep it.

If not, change it.

We changed DS's name after we registered it, because he just didn't fit the name we gave him at first.

Oh Jesse is lovely. Keep!

*Having said that, I think Jesse is a cool name. It was on my boy list this time (but I'm having a girl).

We have the same issue with my DS. He has a traditionally boys name but it is now unfortunately more popular and well known as a girls name. It is a bit annoying but people are generally pretty embarrassed when they are corrected.

Don’t change it if you love it

Jesse is a lovely name. Keep it

I really like Jesse and even babies with obviously gendered names often get called the wrong sex - it happened to my baby girl loads. Once her hair got long it stopped but it didn't bother me anyway.

I think of Jesse James. My cousin called her son Jesse. Wasn’t my favourite choice but it’s grown on me. I’d keep it.