Georgia,Jorja or Georgina?

[Elliekate]

What do you think?
Is the spelling Jorja naff?

[poppyknot]

Re DownyEmerald's post - my name and DD1's condemned in one line. So two in one hit. Hey ho!

The boyish element had never occured to me as a lot of girls names are Boyname + a (Louisa), Boyname + e (Michelle), Boyname + et (the estimable Harriet), Boyname + ie (Stephanie).

And don't forget the Highland tradition of just sticking - ina after any name you care to think of, so Donaldina, Hamishina, Kenina, Dougalina etc

Maybe names should go on the list of subjects too contentious to bring up along with politics and money!

[BlueChampagne]

Georgia gets my vote. Not Jorja please unless it's a non-English variant with relevance to your family.

Poppyknot and DowneyEmerald - my great great aunt was Jamesina (yes, Scottish). She called herself Hope

[OneLieIn]

Jorja - absolutely wrong - it sounds like txt spk for georgia. She would get the piss taken totally for hte rest of her days.

The others are OK, very samey, I know at least 5 girls with these names.

[SoupDragon]

Jorja is truly awful.

[KatB]

Georgina is lovely, could also be shortened to Gina which is one of my favourite names.

Not keen on Jorja but Georgia is nice although quite a few of them about.

[NizzyNoodles]

As much as I like CSI it has to be Georgia over Jorja.
Quite like Georgina too.
I think it will be shortened to Georgie which I like but might not be to everyone's taste.

[lotspot]

sorry truely hate the name geogia - georgina isnt quite so ad and i quite like georgie as a nickname but if i honest im really not keen on them.....never have been not sure why

sorry

[MagdaMagyarMadam]

My Jorja is beautiful! Not weird, awful etc. and can assure you I can "spell" in several languages. Really interesting given that I have found with my own name people generally can't pronounce in any language

At least she is not one of the many Lily, Rose, Phoebe, Ruby, Scarlets at nursery. Such imagination

Now please, someone call me chavvy so I can show this thread to my friends for them to howl with laughter

[SamJamsmum]

Jorja MUST have originally started with an illiterate parent. Too freaky.

Georgia is fine.

Georgina my favourite. Classic, can be played around with during the teenage/university years, still could be the name of a prime minister.

[TrillianAstra]

Has it occurrred to anyone that actors have to be registered with a guild/union (depending on the country) and often change their names either to make it more distinctive or because their real name is already taken. So 'Jorja from CSI' was (I hope) probably originally spelled in a more sensible manner.

Please don't call your child Jorja. Georgia and Georgina are both very nice. Or you could go the full Jane Austen and go for Georgiana.

[Frasersmum123]

I really like Georgia, Jorja is a bit too much for my liking.

Missy - who rattled your cage?

[nappyaddict]

Georgina without a doubt.

[MagdaMagyarMadam]

Califrau and SamJamsMum, can you explain what you mean by your comments "look like you can't spell" and "illiterate parent" I am interested to know how you get to form such views from an alternative spelling of a name.

I am of course very biased

[MagdaMagyarMadam]

lord help you all pronouncing my rl name = very traditional Hungarian and only has five letters in it. It looks made up, ah yes, someone many centuries ago, made it up

[peanutbutterkid]

I don't mind it spelt differently (Jeorjia if you like), I just think that Georgia is the prettiest spelling and sounding of the 3.

Life is too short to care how other people's names are written down...

[SamJamsmum]

I am basing my comments on the fact I taught a child with an alternative spelling and it was simply down the fact her mum had made an initial error. She was quite open about it and had decided to stick with it. I can't believe it's that unusual.
I'd feel similarly if someone called their daughter Reebeker, Soosan or Jewlee.

[MagdaMagyarMadam]

SJM so your opinion is based on one parent's admission of a spelling mistake. Mmmmm.... not really a representative sample is it?

[babaduck]

Definitely Georgia.
Gorgeous name for a gorgeous girl. Jorja, naff. I know a Jorja, seems so wrong.
Of course I'm not at all biased, having an absolutely delicious Georgia myself

[BananaSkin]

Georgia - def not Jorja

[JiminyCricket]

georgia

[user1470441389]

I personally think that both names are lovely and that varied spellings doesn't make the name anything but more unique, from experience I've found that odd or differently spelled names give a child more character and more a need to grow into their unique name by being a unique person. Also the whole concept of someone being of a certain background or upbringing because of their name is pure idiocy and downright prejudiced, assuming a certain person is going to be a certain way based purely on their name in this case makes you no better than a racist. My final point is that the entire basis for having names is a utilitarian purpose to identify people so names that don't sound similar or have been spelt differently actually offer more to the child and fulfil a name's actual use.

[augustusdecimus]

This thread is from January 2009