# Baby names - another thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040 "2008-06-15T19:41:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/1 "2008-06-15T19:41:29Z")
My baby will be a girl. Or should I say is a girl ? What is the right thing to say? Just found out at the ultrasound. My wife wants to name her Jenessa. I want to name her Goldie. My wife rejected all the other name suggestions that I had. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/2 "2008-06-15T22:47:57Z")
Why Goldie? Jenessa Gold sounds kind of cool, to me anyway. I know a little girl named Ella Blue [last name]. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/3 "2008-06-16T02:37:19Z")
I know a Michigan fan who named her kid Maizey Blue (maize and blue), ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/4 "2008-06-16T04:26:25Z")
Jenessa sounds fine. Goldie makes me think of a Jewish grandmother from New York City. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/5 "2008-06-16T05:01:09Z")
How is Jenessa pronounced? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/6 "2008-06-16T05:02:01Z")
If I were about to have a daughter, I would name her Scheherazade (Sherri for short). If you approach names as self-fulfilling prophecies, this wouldn’t be bad…a woman who survives by her wits. > **[Scheherazade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade)** > > Scheherazade (/ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːd, -də/) is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights. > According to modern scholarship, the name Scheherazade derives from the Middle Persian name Čehrāzād, which is composed of the words čehr ('lineage') and āzād ('noble, exalted'). The earliest forms of Scheherazade's name in Arabic sources include Shirazad (Arabic: شيرازاد, romanized: Šīrāzād) in Masudi, and... ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/7 "2008-06-16T13:14:26Z")
Haven’t you learned to stop asking the Dope about this stuff yet? As a group, we don’t like anything. 😉 More seriously, I don’t like either one this time around. Goldie does indeed sound like the name of a 70-year-old Jewish grandmother, and Jenessa just doesn’t do it for me. I’m not against made-up names on principle, but it sounds like nothing to me. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/8 "2008-06-16T13:17:33Z")
Goldie sounds like someone’s golden retriever. I’m not thrilled about Jenessa either, but at least it sounds like a person name and not a dog name. If your wife likes Jenessa, maybe you could try finding a name that you like that shares similar qualities, i.e. starts with a J, has a feminine ending, or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/9 "2008-06-16T16:29:49Z")
Not crazy about either either. “Goldie” has got to be so firmly associated by the actress of the same name that I can imagine people asking why you named your kid after her and your child on the receiving end of the same question ad infinitum. “Jenessa” sounds like an unhappy amalgam of “Jennifer” and “Vanessa” that just doesn’t work. Reminds me of a student whose parents wanted to pay homage to the two grandfathers of their son and named him “Jimothy”. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/10 "2008-06-16T16:45:51Z")
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking] My wife wants to name her Jenessa. I want to name her Goldie. My wife rejected all the other name suggestions that I had. [/QUOTE] Sorry, but both are bad. “Jenessa” is not absolutely the worst name ever, and at least it sounds like a girl’s name, but it still sounds made up. It sounds like you just couldn’t decide between Vanessa and Jennifer and decided to go with both. “Goldie” is a name for a dog, not a little girl. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/11 "2008-06-16T16:53:48Z")
You people are crazy. Goldie is a name for a fish, not a dog. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/12 "2008-06-16T17:00:10Z")
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit] If your wife likes Jenessa, maybe you could try finding a name that you like that shares similar qualities, i.e. starts with a J, has a feminine ending, or something like that. [/QUOTE] Talk to the Duggars. I’m sure they have some extra J names available. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/13 "2008-06-16T18:28:34Z")
Out of curiosity – and maybe I’m a _leetle_ afraid to ask this, but – what were the other names you had in mind? And why was the kibosh put upon them? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/14 "2008-06-16T18:39:16Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Out of curiosity – and maybe I’m a _leetle_ afraid to ask this, but – what were the other names you had in mind? And why was the kibosh put upon them? [/QUOTE] Say what you will about some of the names **blinkingblinking** has suggested - and I’ve liked some of them, but not everybody has - he’s being very thorough. [Thinking of names for my next baby](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=462679) [My baby girl name thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=463555) [Baby names - Time for another thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=466022) ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/15 "2008-06-16T18:56:56Z")
IMO, some of the names in the second thread that \*\*Marley \*\*linked to are much better (Cosette, Amarina, Mizumi). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/16 "2008-06-16T19:28:06Z")
[QUOTE=Carm6773] Talk to the Duggars. I’m sure they have some extra J names available. [/QUOTE] But you’d better act fast. Those names won’t last long. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/17 "2008-06-16T20:13:51Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Sorry, but both are bad. “Jenessa” is not absolutely the worst name ever, and at least it sounds like a girl’s name, but it still sounds made up. It sounds like you just couldn’t decide between Vanessa and Jennifer and decided to go with both. “Goldie” is a name for a dog, not a little girl. [/QUOTE] I don’t know if was originally made up, but Janessa, with an “a” is a fairly popular name among Portuguese families here in San Diego. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/18 "2008-06-16T20:33:36Z")
If you want to position your daughter for Hollywood rather than the Supreme Court, Jenessa is OK. Goldie suffers from nickname-as-name syndrome. I’m not a fan. I’d rather see her named Marigold, with Goldie as a nickname. Also, do you know for sure she will be blonde? Because Goldie as a name for a brunette or redhead would really be off. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/19 "2008-06-16T20:39:28Z")
Howzabout Platinummy? ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040/20 "2008-06-16T21:42:52Z")
I had an aunt Goldie. It was short for something, but I can’t remember what. She’d be about ninety if she were alive. I give both names a thumbs-down. You have any other ideas, **blinkingblinking**? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-names-another-thread/453040.md?page=2)