golda is the usual birth certificate name. as in golda meir.
goldie is the nickname. as in goldie hawn.
one was a 70 year old prime minister (and grandmother).
one is an ageless comic.
just one example of what a serious name vs nickname will do to you.
My earlier comment did not come out the way I intended it, and I apologize to whomever was offended. I didn’t know there were other threads.
This might help.
It’s a not unheard of name for Portuguese girls in Massachussetts too (there are a lot of Portuguese people in southern MA) and I’m sure they’re happy not to have been named after uncle Manny or uncle Joe 
2 out of 3 kids in my mom’s family were named after my grandfather and great-grandfather Joe: mom’s Joanne, my uncle is Joseph III.
I think it sounds somewhat odd with the son’s name, but Jenessa isn’t bad on its own merits.
Harriet the Spry, what about all the non-redheads named Scarlet and Ruby? They seem to do okay.
Like others have said, “Goldie” sounds like something you name your fish or retriever.
I like Jenessa alright. Not as much as I like Jane, Jenny, or Melissa - but then I’m stodgy and dull like that.
Melissa would be good. My wife says that she likes the sound of “issa” “essa”.
But I hate the nickname of ‘Mel’.
Maybe it’s different in Australia, but I don’t know any Melissas who are nicknamed Mel. When I was growing up, the standard nickname was Missy (which I don’t really care for, but is better than Mel). All the Melissas I know now go by their whole name.
Jenessa is OK; Goldie, not so much, because of the connotations already mentioned.
I like Melissa.
GT
My IRL name is Nerissa - howzabaout that?
Clarissa!
There was a writer named Jessamyn…that’s kind of cool.
This is my experience as well. I have 5 or 6 friends named Melissa, and they all go by “Melissa.” None of them are called “Mel,” and as far as I know, they never have been. (One did go by her middle name for a while in college, but that was her choice, and just a phase.)
Why discount a name you like because of possible nicknames? I have many cousins who go by their full given names of “Michael” or “Gregory” or “Zachary” or “Abbigail” or “Elizabeth” or whatever because that is what their parents call them.
How did you all arrive at the names? Did you just like the sounds or are the family names?
I’m a fan of family names, myself.
I don’t think you have anything to apologize for. I sure wasn’t offended.
And it’s from Shakespeare! You can’t go wrong with Shakespeare names. 
This “Goldie” isn’t so sweet.
Jenessa sounds like a porn star.
I resigned myself to the fact that the poor kid’s joing to have a Jerry Springer audience member name about three of these threads ago.
They both sound like stripper names.
Well, isn’t that a reasonably common name on Mars? 
There are lots of good “issa” and “essa” names, and aren’t made up. I like the suggestions of Nerissa and Clarissa. Vanessa and Marissa are nice, too.
So is Jenessa in fact made up? Because, without knowing either way, the previously-mentioned “Janessa” actually looks and sounds nicer and less randomly amalgamated to me, that little vowel makes a difference. Wouldn’t be a name I’d choose for myself, but I would suggest considering that instead. Don’t like Goldie at all, JMO of course.
I looked up Jenessa on behindthename.com, which gives origins and meanings of names. It said it’s “a combination of Jen and the popular name suffix ‘essa.’” So, yes, it’s made up.
I don’t think I’ve personally known a Scarlet. And who knows what color Scarlett Johanson’s hair really is? Was Scarlett O’Hara brunette in the book, or just the movie? The character seems to have that redhead=fiesty stereotype going on.
I have a vague sense of perhaps having met an older Ruby from time to time. I could see Ruby coinciding with the birthstone, perhaps. Still, I picture Ruby as someone whose dark hair has red highlights.
I think Goldie is worse than either of those, though, because it sounds so much like a nickname. Why would someone have a nickname that doesn’t describe them? Just … odd.