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Jetta for a girl?

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jbakedbean · 27/08/2013 00:44

Just found out from logging on to mums net tat the name we did have picked out as a front runner has had the curse of Katie price calling her son a similar name so now I think we need to change tack.

Just in case though what do my fellow mums betters think of jetta for a girl?

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bellabelly · 27/08/2013 00:45

Noooooooo! Don't do it!

nooka · 27/08/2013 00:47

Um are you really serious about this? Where I live it is the name of a very popular VW car (think golf with a boot). I really can't imagine it on a child.

JazzAnnNonMouse · 27/08/2013 00:48

Hardly anyone will make the association especially as its not even the same name.

dontlaugh · 27/08/2013 00:48

Why would you do that to your child? It's a car.

Rummikub · 27/08/2013 00:49

Isnt jetta a character from Clifford the big red dog from cbeebies?

StephenFrySaidSo · 27/08/2013 00:50

as in Volkswagen jetta? umm no. its like calling her mondeo or scenic

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jbakedbean · 27/08/2013 01:03

Jetta means black stone and I want a name that makes people think of a strong beautiful, independent woman. Thus no fluffy (yet very nice) poppy, daisy types. Also don't want it to be a popular name, but at the same time not off the wall, I know it's a pretty ugly car as well though but thus not very well known.

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LoopThePoop · 27/08/2013 01:08

Volkswagen.

LoopThePoop · 27/08/2013 01:08

It is a very well known car name.

NatashaBee · 27/08/2013 01:09

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LoopThePoop · 27/08/2013 01:10

Almost everyone who mentioned it so far named the car, it's a car.
A rotten ugly car

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jbakedbean · 27/08/2013 01:16

Lol, I think I might have to get dp to read this, his heart is set on it yet I'm open, see the max and seb baby sister question. Bizarrely my man is a car enthusiast but thinks the jetta link won't get made.

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NapaCab · 27/08/2013 01:19

No, I'd go with Mondeo or Passat.

escorpion · 27/08/2013 01:20

What about Ebony?

Rummikub · 27/08/2013 01:20

Buy everyone the Clifford big red dog DVD. I don't think car, I think the little girl character in the DVD. Probably will get shortened to jet?

trolleycoin · 27/08/2013 01:21

Well known car. Might as well go with Passat. No names inspiring images of strong independent beautiful woman springs to mind at the moment though.

Frikadellen · 27/08/2013 01:29

Fairly common Scandinavian name I dont hate it (my mother is Jette) but I liken it to names like Jane and Anne plain and pretty boring.

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jbakedbean · 27/08/2013 01:50

Yes, I think it's origin is Scandinavian or Danish. Interesting point of what it resembles over here.

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nooka · 27/08/2013 02:05

If you want people to associate your potential dd's name with 'strong beautiful, independent woman' then I really don't think that Jetta is going to work. Clearly most people associate it with a fairly boring (but fuel efficient) car.

To be honest I think that you will struggle to find any name that has the same association for everyone, but I think I would start by thinking about women (real or fictional) you think have the values you are looking to emulate and consider their names.

If your other children are called Sebastian (Seb) and Maximilian (Max) then Jetta really really doesn't seem to me to 'go' at all.

StayAwayFromTheEdge · 27/08/2013 02:38

It's awful and in no way matches the lovely names your other two children have.

Why the insistence on the JP initials?

gotadifferentnamenow · 27/08/2013 02:55

It's a car, sorry.

What about Isis?

MrsMongoose · 27/08/2013 03:00

If you are after an 'out there" stone name, maybe Onyx? Saw a lady called this on TV, and I haven't ever forgotten her!

RoadToTuapeka · 27/08/2013 04:08

Maybe it does mean something nice but it sounds silly and made up imo. Maybe change your own name if you like an out there name so much rather than inflict a child with it!

glastocat · 27/08/2013 04:14

Ugly car.

sleepingbeautiful · 27/08/2013 06:59

Boring car. Like being called Civic or 205.