Jess for a boy?

[OkayHazel]

I really like Jess and Jesse, but are there any longer names that these two derive from?

Feel like I just don't know enough about this name!

[AberdeenAngusina]

It wouldn't be a good name here (north Scotland) because a "big Jessie" is a boy who's scared of something.

[KittenOfDoom]

1. Jesse is NOT an American name.
   

Jesse has enjoyed some popularity in the USA, perhaps more frequently than in the UK. Biblical names seem to be more consistently favoured in the USA and less subject to fashion (this is just my own impression).

1. Jesse is NOT a unisex name.
   

While Jessie is a girl's name (sometimes but not always a diminutive of Jessica), it is not the same name as Jesse.

[MajaBiene]

"Big Jessie" isn't really a term in common usage, at least not where I am from! I doubt most children would be aware of it/know what it means.

I know an adult and a child Jesse - neither has been teased for the name.

[PipkinsPal]

Thank you Kitten. Hazel - I wasn't being negative about the name of Jesse being of Gypsy/Traveller origin I was just stating a fact that he is the only person I know who is called Jesse.

[seeker]

"While Jessie is a girl's name (sometimes but not always a diminutive of Jessica), it is not the same name as Jesse."

But it's pronounced the same. So to another child it amounts to the same name. I am just amazed that anyone would deliberately choose a name out of the millions of names available that might make their child's life more difficult. It might not, obviously. But it might. So why risk it?

[noddyholder]

Fgs risk it?

[seeker]

Noddy- will you stop saying cryptic things??

[noddyholder]

My name is a dual sex name too have never thought of it until now! No one else has ever mentioned it either

[GlaikitHasHerFizzBack]

I would avoid Jesse in Scotland because of big Jesse. But if you aren't in Scotland I can't see a problem.

[seeker]

No. Because Frances/is is well known to be a unisex name. Jesse sounds like a name which is almost always a girl's name.

[noddyholder]

Oh right so if its well known its ok. Most people won't assume a girl if they see jesse I can assure.Ds is phsl at this suburban mothers worrying about what people call their kids. he has a point

[seeker]

Most people will assume girl if they hear "Jessie"

Why are you being so rude, by the way?

[noddyholder]

Where have I been rude?

[noddyholder]

You are speaking for yourself not 'most people'. I am speaking from experience as my son has that name and we have never encountered any of these things

[seeker]

I am delighted that your son has never experienced any teasing.

If we're talking personally, I asked my own son about this and he said that a Jesse turning up in his class at school would definitely get teased. As he said, "It shouldn't happen but it would"

[Bowlersarm]

Just thought of a Jesse in the public eye. Jesse Wood, son of Ronnie, and boyfriend of Fearne Cotton. That should help the cause of boy Jesse's shouldn't it?

[noddyholder]

Sounds like a great school Right I am off this thread is everything I hate about MN Happy easter

[noddyholder]

My brother used to babysit him bowler many moons ago I had forgotten him

[Emphaticmaybe]

Jesse is quite cool now for a boy even here in the UK - Breaking Bad anyone?

[seeker]

"Sounds like a great school Right I am off this thread is everything I hate about MN Happy easter"

What a deeply, deeply stupid post.

[noddyholder]

The posh lady is calling me stupid Help!

[seeker]

I didn't say you were stupid. I said that was a stupid post. Very different things.

[KittenOfDoom]

Anyone with a decent education and/or some experience of the world will know that Jesse is a man's name.

Is Jessie all that common as a girl's name in recent times? Surely they're nearly all Jessicas. I only know one person whose name is Jessie, she is middle-aged and was named after her grandmother. I know plenty of Jessicas, all younger than me and all called Jessica or Jess. Not Jessie.