Jean

[MouldyPeach]

I'm 34 weeks pregnant and still stuck for a name for dd3 on her way. I previously posted about the name Tiger and got mixed responses. It's still in the running though.
I'm drawn to the name Jean, dds 1&2 have 'old lady' names so it would work but I'm not sure if Jean is an ugly name. What do you think of when you hear it?

As an aside I absolutely love the name Billie-Jean but am in no way a Michael Jackson fan and I don't want to subject the poor girl to a lifetime of that! What other names sound nice hyphened with either Billie or Jean?

Ooh I actually like Phyllis! I think it's like Jean where you have to get over women you may have known with the name and think of it as new.

Nothing wrong with being called genius as a play on a name IMO

Seems I like marmite names, should just call her Marmite nn Marmie

mouse I actually already have an Edith :)

I actually like Phyllis! I think it's like Jean where you have to get over women you may have known with the name and think of it as new

It's exactly that.
It doesn't matter if a name's vintage or new age, you can associate it with someone you know and like or dislike accordingly.

Beryl is a typical example. It could belong to a matronly blue rinsed lady or it could be for a baby so called after the precious stone. Ruby could be an elderly woman, a pop song or a precious gem.
It's all about perceptions and once a name is given, then its owner can define it.

So called elderly names coming back into fashion for girls is very interesting, because female names come and go much more so than males' names.

Adore Jean, sadly DP didn't and we didn't use it but if I had another daughter I'd be pushing for it. It's a beautiful, simple, underused name.

Seems to be a bit "Marmite" on here though?

I like old fashioned names, however some of them like Ethel, Maude, Mabel just sound ugly, I think Jean would fall into the old fashioned but ugly category. Tiger is a recipe for a lifetime of teasing and more of a masculine name.

I love Iove love Jean. DH hates it or it would have been DD1s name.

I like Phyllis as well.

Gladys? It's on my list for DC2 although DH isn't convinced!

It's my name and I love it.
I don't mind "Hi Jean/ Hygiene" - it never caused me any problems - and I was an excessively bookish, bespectacled, plumpish child/ teen in not-awfully-kind schools, so if I managed to escape bullying on that score, I would be surprised if someone was targeted hard over it.
"Jean Genie" is a very cool song, "Jeanie Johnston" is a very cool ship, and while Daydream Believer is as cheesy as all get out, the girl is still a homecoming queen! It's good for a laugh in a corny way at 2am in a terrible nightclub!

In French or Dutch or Afrikaan-speaking places it might be pronounced as the French male name Jean - I once had a Skype interview with someone who thought I was going to be a man! - but again that has never caused me any issues.

Jean is not a name I would choose. Or Gladys, Phyllis or Beryl.
You'll be suggesting Edna next.

It's my DMs, was my DGMs and it's my middle-name. I hate it and don't use it. In my DMs and DGMs case their proper name is Jane but it's a common change to use Jean instead in Scotland. The most boring name ever.

I quite like Janey though :-)