Thoughts on Jessamy

[GoldenRosebee]

Thoughts on Jessamy (Jess-a-me). It's 17th Century variation on Jasmine and Jessamine.

He and Frederica had an agreement to never call each other Jessie and Freddy, as I remember. The owner of Lufra, the Baluchistan Hound.

I love it.

The other kids will sing "can you tell me how to get, how to get to Jessamy Street" at her.

I really like it actually. Please don't do Rose or Grace as a middle name though.

I absolutely love it. I also love Jessian which I have only heard once, on a man that I met briefly through work years ago - never heard before or since and I only met the guy twice but I still remember loving his name!

Awful sorry.

go with Jessica or Jasmine

I like it but I'm not sure I'd use it. I think you / your kid would be constantly asked how do you pronounce that?. I would go with Yasmin or Jasmine.
@SalmonOnFinnCrisp Not made up or American.

Why are so many people apparently allergic to names like Carol, Susan, Mary, Heather, Rose, or any of the dozens if not hundreds of available names that 100% of native English speakers know how to pronounce and spell?

Because that would cause different issues if everyone had the same (very few) names, even ignoring personal taste.

Even one of the names you’ve suggested you’d need to spell out - is it Carol or Carole?

I'm aware of the name and it is indeed a very old one. However, most people will assume it's a made up American thing. I much prefer Jessamine which is prettier and still very unusual.

Not a personal favourite, though I have heard of a Jessamy in my friend's class in the 1980s.

I prefer Jessica, Jamima, Jasmine, Jezabel and Jacinta.

I’m not keen - it makes me think of Jeremy.

😅😅😅

Awful

I also love it and knew a lovely person with the name . She was usually called Jess or Jesse .

It's lovely, very pretty, and I've been aware of it as a name for a long time though I haven't met any.

It sounds like you couldn't decide between jessica or jeremy and created some trashy mash up.

I like it. I used to know one (she was v posh).

Also there's the Jean Ure character from Star Turn - who has very annoyingly been renamed Maddy in the dumbed-down rewrite

My first thought when I saw Jessamy was that the hyphen was missing between Jess and Amy, but now I can’t unthink the comment about ‘jizz’.

Why not Jasmine? It’s beautiful. Much prettier sounding than Jessamy.

Nope

I quite like it actually, and I like Jess for short

Don’t do it…it’s a really bad name

It’s a no from me and reminding me of the Jimberly thread. Sorry

It's a longstanding name. Perhaps you don't read much?

"Carol, no E" and "Carole, with an E" are still worlds better than having to spell your entire first name.

There are more easy-to-spell names available than the ones I listed. As for the "loads of people with the same name" problem, there were four with the sane name in my class at school and we coped. Davids and Johns everywhere cope.

It’s my mum’s name. She often goes by a shortening but I’m not aware of her ever having trouble with people not knowing how to pronounce it. I’ve always thought it was beautiful and suits her perfectly. I’m confident that everyone on MN would hate the names I gave to my own children!