What are your real, true feelings on...

[CheerfulYank]

Jackson?

I love it but would always end up being Jack.

Not keen but I like Jack.

I really dislike it. I like Jack though. Jackson is a surname to me.

I like Jack too, and that's what I would call my (not conceived :)) DS. But our last name is Brick! So I was thinking Jackson-called-Jack would be better?

I'm with Rocket, I'm afraid.

We had Jaxon for a boy, would have been shortened to Jax, not Jack

He's a paedophlle despite what the courts said. Madder than a box of frogs.

I was thinking of Pollack or the song Johnny Cash and June Carter sang rather than Michael...

No sorry don't like it. I don't like Jack either.

I think people will always thing of Michael too when they hear it.

ds has a friend called Jackson, but we live in Canada and surnames as first names are very common here. I'm not personally keen, perhaps partly because I spent a couple of years at boarding school where most of the boys were called by their surnames, so it just seems very impersonal.

Don't like it at all.

It is obviously an American name- someone in my (American) family has this name and the British lot call him Jack ... It wouldn't be on my list, but it is ok

Well, I am American, so that's helpful! :)

I really love Jack...it's not nearly as popular here as it is there, but it feels too short with my surname.

The Pollack connection is good, but the Cash/Carter one - slightly, hmm, dunno...

I love the song actually, but Jackson, Mississippi - to me - conjures up segregation, freedom rides, lynchings, and a rather backward attitude to race relations. I hope I haven't offended anyone with this - just saying what comes to mind when I think of Jackson MS.

Then again (I'm dead indecisive, me), I'm not even sure I'd think of Jackson the city if I heard the name on a boy... I know of a little boy called Jackson, and I didn't even think of the city; rather I thought that he had a rather 'of the moment', surname-y type name.

I think you will get a different response to the name in different countries (I'm not in the UK - I'm in the Antipodes and there tends to be more of a tendency to follow US trends here than there is in the UK).

Jack Brick. Hmm, I don't think that sounds so great tbh.

Agree that Jackson will end up as Jack, so he WILL most likely be Jack Brick.

I think Jackson is great!

I love it!! I would use it if I was a bit braver!!

Not a fan at all, but if you're American then its a normal name for you to use iyswim. He will be called Jack mostly over here though. And the Michael connection will be a common one.

Don't like surnames as first names. It's a bit American soap opera-esque.

I went to school with a Jackson, he was never ever called Jack.

If you like it, go for it.

I like Jackson, go for it. X

Not keen on Jackson sorry

I'm not keen IMHO

Can't get past that "Sorry Miss Jackson" song. Random I know, but you did ask

I like it (it is DS's middle name - used because it's my granny's maiden name and I just really like it)