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best boys name blue or jesse?

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diamondlizard · 13/02/2014 11:41

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JunoMacGuff · 13/02/2014 11:45

Jesse is lovely.

Blue is odd

sonlypuppyfat · 13/02/2014 11:50

This thread is so good shes done it twice.

Seminyak · 13/02/2014 11:51

Jesse

ShadowFall · 13/02/2014 11:54

Jesse

donnie · 13/02/2014 11:54

blue, as in the colour?

Really?

hoboken · 13/02/2014 11:55

Blue may attract the nickname 'Poo' and Jesse... Do I need to go on? Your child may be lovely but others can be merciless. Sorry, neither...

ToffeeJungle · 13/02/2014 11:57

To me Blue is a colour not a name and Jesse is too feminine sounding for a boy so neither, sorry.

PuppyMonkey · 13/02/2014 11:57

No

Nightwish · 13/02/2014 11:59

Jesse. I am bias though as I have one!

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diamondlizard · 13/02/2014 12:00

sorry did that by accident

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Clawdy · 13/02/2014 12:08

Jesse is a lovely name and most people don't think of it as girly now because of a spate of American actors called Jesse...

Britishseamonkey · 13/02/2014 12:16

I've known two boys called blue. I like both but prefer Blue slightly

SS3J · 13/02/2014 13:04

Both too feminine sounding for me. I know Jesse is a.boy's name but because Jess and Jessica are so popular at the moment it is thought of as more girly. I have also only heard Blue as a girl's name. Although have come across Blu without the e for a boy.

tammytoby · 13/02/2014 13:06

Jesse sounds so girly to my ears, perhaps because I know a Jessica nicknamed Jessy.

Blue actually sounds quite masculine and seems to be not uncommon:
Blue Adams (born 1979), American football player
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 1988) or simply Adele, English singer-songwriter and musician
Blue Balliett (born 1955), American author
Blue Barron (1913–2005), American orchestra leader
Blue Dixon (c. 1885–c. 1941), Australian rugby union player
Blue Edwards (born 1965), American basketball player
Sandra "Blue" Good (born 1944), associate of American criminal Charles Manson
Blue Howell (fl. 1930s), American football player and coach
Blue Mitchell (1930–1979), American trumpeter

Viviennemary · 13/02/2014 13:09

They are both totally dire. Please don't. Sounds like a pet dog in an old Western.

MerylStrop · 13/02/2014 13:12

Jesse. Though it is potentially fraught with problems.

Blue is ridiculously try-hard. Reserve it for a middle name if you really must.

MerylStrop · 13/02/2014 13:13

A friend has a daughter with middle name Blue (she's 9 or 10). It works.

BrandNewIggi · 13/02/2014 13:14

Jesse makes me think of a long-haired, free-spirited American boy. But I don't live in America, and here it would be "ya big Jessie".
Blue would mean the daddy was a Rangers fan.

iseenodust · 13/02/2014 13:17

Well big Jessie but maybe Jesse James.
Blue? Just no.

Starballbunny · 13/02/2014 13:23

Dakota Blue Richards, who played Lyra in The golden Compass and DD2's two DFs who are Jess/Jessie/Jessica

MsJJones · 13/02/2014 22:50

Like Blue, dislike Jesse.

BeQuicksieorBeDead · 13/02/2014 22:53

Isn't Jesse supposed to be really popular this year because of Breaking Bad? We thought about Jesse, and Brodie but thought they might both be popular due to tv!

bLooming2 · 13/02/2014 23:32

Love both also no a Jesse and a blew and they never had issue with it being a girls name I only no boys with this name so to me naming a girl these would be weird hope you go with what you like op x Grin

NinjaCow · 14/02/2014 02:00

Love Jesse. I quite like Blue, actually. In fact, Blue is imo the nicer/cooler one.