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Jasper and the twilight connection

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WhenSheWasBadSheWasExhausted · 19/10/2013 11:18

Really really struggling with a boys name. We quite like Jasper but if I call him Jasper will everyone think I've named him after a character in Twilight. the real inspiration is that there is a cat in Numberjacks called Jasper but we will ignore that

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sonlypuppyfat · 19/10/2013 11:21

Sorry the only jaspers I've ever known have been dogs. Mainly spaniels.

DurhamOx · 19/10/2013 11:22

Well, that wouldn't occur to me if a child was called Edward, or Bella, or Jake, or Renesmee...oh, wait...

Seriously it's fine, Jasper isn't a major character, I had to think about who he was when I read the post. It's a nice name.

Bunbaker · 19/10/2013 11:25

Only by people familiar with Twilight, and there are loads of us who aren't. I think it is a lovely name.

Writerwannabe83 · 19/10/2013 12:54

It just makes me think of Jasper Carrot [smil]

WhenSheWasBadSheWasExhausted · 19/10/2013 13:47

So it's not looking too bad for Jasper then. As long as he doesn't grow up to look like a Spaniel we should be ok Grin

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Frontdoorstep · 19/10/2013 13:50

I don't know anything about Twilight and suspect thus will be the case for others too.

WhenSheWasBadSheWasExhausted · 19/10/2013 14:36

frontdoor you're not missing anything.

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EverythingIsSoThrowback · 19/10/2013 14:41

I think it'd be fine.
I think the only problems with book names are when they're more or less exclusive to it.
i.e - Hermione, Katniss, Renesmee, all seem a bit Hmm while Harry, Johanna, Jasper, I don't think anyone would assume it was a connection..

Florin · 19/10/2013 14:46

I have a Jasper and your post is the first I have heard of this connection (I have never seen the films). I love his name, it is unusual but easy to spell and hard to shorten. Everyone we meet always comments on it. It is my opinion quite timeless-infact my ds is named after a 70 year old man.

Twobuttonsaway · 19/10/2013 14:55

I have one too, and I've never seen Twilight. We love it and thus far we haven't met another one (part from Florin who obviously has great taste Smile).

StetsonsAreCool · 19/10/2013 15:01

????

I love Jasper so much. It's at the top of my hypothetical boys list. Dh isnt keen though. When/where he grew up it was a nickname for wasps so he doesn't like it. Doesn't change how I feel though!

StetsonsAreCool · 19/10/2013 15:02

Sorry, phone having complete meltdown. It posted something random which now seems to have disappeared. Excuse the ???s Blush

JazzAnnNonMouse · 19/10/2013 15:39

Who is he in twilight?

I've even read the books Blush

daughterofafarmer · 19/10/2013 15:47

I've read the books but I won't for 1 sec ohh Jasper, like Twilight.

imofftolisdoonvarna · 19/10/2013 16:29

I have read all the twilight books and am quite familiar with all the characters - but that name still reminds me far, far more of jasper carrot!

BananaHammocks · 19/10/2013 19:05

I really like the name Jasper but don't pick it if you want something unusual as it's getting closer and closer to the top 100 names.

bridgetsmum · 19/10/2013 19:07

I think I quite like Jasper, and I would never think of Twilight.

I wouldn't worry about that if I were you Grin

HotPanda · 20/10/2013 21:38

My cousin is Jasper, and he is 42, so twilight isn't my first immediate thought!

Alisvolatpropiis · 25/10/2013 07:29

My first thought when seeing Jasper is "for gods sake DP it is such a great name how can you not like it".

In terms of what I think of? I make the Jasper Tudor link. I appreciate I may be fairly unusual in that though.

Mckayz · 25/10/2013 07:32

We have a Rosalie and only 1 person has commented on it and calls her the Twilight baby. He's a fucking knob normally anyway.

But no one has ever mentioned it.

BikeRunSki · 25/10/2013 07:34

I haven't read Twilight, have no intention to, but Jasper will always mean "wasp" to me.

Mattissy · 25/10/2013 08:46

I've read the twilight books but struggled to even think of the main characters names, I mean twilight is soooo last year by now!!

I have a nob tosser ex boyfriend called Jasper, that's the only reason I don't like it, lol

Hopefully · 25/10/2013 21:24

I have a Jasper. He's only 2.5 but no one has ever even mentioned the twilight link to me (they might all be saying it behind my back of course).

RhondaJean · 25/10/2013 21:27

I love jasper buttttt

Jasper Tudor is fine.

Jasper is the best of the twilight vamps.

In RL and modern life though, jasper is most definitely a spaniel! Sorry.

MrsSpencerReid · 25/10/2013 21:30

I have a Jacob and ds2 on the way, several people have suggested Edward for DS2 so obviously twilight can't be that high in people's minds!! (Edward and Jacob are the 2 main male characters in case anyone was wondering!!)

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