Jed

[coldtoe]

Just Jed, not short for anything.
What do you think?

I had to google Jed Bartlet. Not seen the west wing (or ever known a donkey called Ned!) so the names don't have these links for me.
I have a 'birth certificate name' and a 'nickname' aka my NAME that I have always been called. If I phoned family and used the full name they wouldn't know who I was because it's not me. I hated having a new teacher at school call me the full name and get cross because I didn't answer. I wasn't being rude but there were girls who had the full name in my class so I assumed the teacher meant them! So will only use a 'full name' if that's what I will actually call my baby.

If only you were having boy twins Coldtoe!

Jed Bartlet in the West Wing is short for Josiah, which I think is a great name too, but Jed and Ned are fine on their own.

Or quads... Jed, Ned, Ted and Fred

I'm not familiar with it as a name in the UK. I think a pp mentioned the Duggars and that it the impression I'm left with, a religious fundamentalist perhaps?

I quite like Josiah though but I can't see how you would get Jed from that?

I just think of jedward.....and they are effin annoying

I don't like it at all. It doesn't sound like a baby's name. A grown macho male might get away with it.

Jed's great . Actually so is Ned, Fred, Ted . They're all great boy names so don't be afraid to go for it

That might have been your experience of a proper 'birth certificate name' but you have to think objectively. Your child might like to have that option, rather than not, and being stuck with Jed.

Josiah Bartlet is Jed because he is Josiah Edward

Love Jed. Sounds strong and manly and like the lead character in a crime novel

Making it short for Jeddediah or Jeremy or Josiah makes it horribly wet and religious sounding

Also taught a Jed - lovely lad and super-bright!

I would assume you were West Wing fans.

Jed was the bully in my town who grew up to be a drug dealer.
Also makes me think of the Duggars...so two very different ends of the name spectrum for me!

I'm from central Scotland too and it makes me think of the jedhead (tip of the penis - funny that we have a slang word for such a specific area of the body)

To me Jed is a thug.