Jean

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Totally crushing on the name Jean. What are your thoughts on it?

Sibset would be Finn, Louis, Hector & Jean

LOVE it!

To me Jean is not the least bit cool or edgy, it's dreary & dull, almost as bad as Joan.

I like it.

It's the name of the little girl in 'To Kill A Mockingbird', so I'm surprised it hasn't become more popular again.

It's surely one of those names waiting quietly in the wings, ready to explode on a few years, along with names like Pam, Sandra and Susan! It will happen...

Please don't! Awful name for a baby

Love it.

hate Joan (not sure why) but love Jean. A name that translates well across other languages. Love the nn Jeannie too. And then there is "I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair" (I'm a sucker for victorian parlor songs/poems)

Love it

I like it. Prefer Jane and Joan, which all have the same meaning.
I know a Jean and a Jeanne (pronounced Jean), both tall slim and beautiful.

First thought was yuck but it's growing on me a lot. Does it go with surname?

love it

I don't think its old enough for a comeback yet, I have still have living old relatives called Jean whose mothers were Iris & Ivy & Eedie. I'm not sure enough enough time for Jean has passed to make it cool.

If you have an energetic feisty Jean then maybe it would work, but if your Jean is quiet & conservative its not a nice name to be saddled with.

Gosh I think it's awful - sorry! Like a PP I don't think enough generations have passed to make it "cool" or "retro". Elsie, Mabel, Violet, Edie are all ok imo - great-grandma names rather than grandma I guess. Jean, Maureen, Belinda, not so much. However, you'd probably hate my DDs' boring top 20 names so if you love it, use it!

The past year or two have really started to like this. And Jeannie's fun. Go for it!

Sounds like it will complete the sibset well.

I love Jeannie and Joni.
I know an Ava Jean, fab name.

Umm, sorry not for me. Jane, Jean, Joan, June just remind me of menopausal women...

Jeanie is mildly better.

Middle aged over peroxide hair to me I'm afraid. Sorry

Hate it.

Her brothers get nice, "current" names and she gets Jean. She won't thank you for it.

I really dislike Jean.
Jane is so much better

Jean is a totally cool name. It is my daughter's name (she's early 20s) and she rocks it :)

Jean is Lovely with your sibset! Also you can have the endearing nickname Jeannie which you never hear now.

Well I've heard everything now. Just, no.

Awful and dowdy. I've got an auntie Jean, Joan and June, all in their 70s and 80s. Having said that I don't mind Jeanie.

So you're dissing the names just because the people you know with those names are old?

They were young once, and maybe elegant and beautiful.
Like my Mum.

They're all still really lovely! Just the names are dated and very common in that age group. Don't like granny chic names either eg Mabel,
Elsie etc.