Thoughts on the name Jaxie?

Some of you may heard one of the girls from Teen Mom named her daughter this and as someone who usually strays from names that are classic and well know I have to say I love it! It’s a good alternative [name_f]IMO[/name_f] to something more common like [name_u]Jackie[/name_u] or the boys name [name_m]Jackson[/name_m] (or my friends son who is named [name_m]Jaxon[/name_m]) I just really like names that are uncommon but not so much that people just shake their heads and I think Jaxie is the way to go it’s just cute to me I can see a little blonde haired girl running around with that name.

I think it’s too… cutesy. Won’t age well at all. It seems she wasn’t thinking about the future and what it will be like when her daughter wants a career.

I think it would be cute as a nickname for [name_f]Jacqueline[/name_f] or something else, but I don’t like it on its own. I do have a little bit of a soft spot for [name_f]Nixie[/name_f] and [name_f]Roxy[/name_f] / [name_f]Roxie[/name_f].

I think it’s adorable! But for a nickname. I wouldn’t use it as a name all on it’s own.

I think it’s cute as a nn for [name_f]Jacqueline[/name_f] or Jacquelina.

Jaxie seems a bit nicknamy to me, though I can see someone with this name. Also, out of the list of girl names in your sig, I’d say [name_f]Tamsin[/name_f] is my favorite (mostly because of the association to the character named [name_f]Tamsin[/name_f] in the show Lost Girl).

I don’t care for Jaxie. It’s too cutesy and I can’t picture it on a teenager, adult, or older woman.

I think it’s an okay nickname but a full name should be given. I don’t think it will age well.

I agree that it’s too cutesy. I really hate it.

And I really tried to like it, haha. I considered that it was almost [name_u]Jackie[/name_u] and would be a cute nn for [name_f]Jacqueline[/name_f] but it just sounds like a kr8tyv spin-off of [name_m]Jackson[/name_m]/[name_m]Jaxon[/name_m].

On its own it sounds quite superficial and shallow. As a nn it would be fine.

I can’t picture it on a girl at all! It sounds like a cutesy nickname for [name_m]Jackson[/name_m] so I immediately think of it as a boys name!

Well, it’s not really a name, isn’t it? It’s made up, overly cutesy and unappealing.

Wait, does jacksie not mean the same thing in the USA? In [name_m]Britain[/name_m] it means arse, and I assume Jaxie would be pronounced exactly the same.

@jackal I don’t think I’ve ever heard that word before, much less being used in substitute for ass. Maybe I’ll start saying it around children instead so they won’t have any idea what I mean. Lol

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/jacksie :smiley:
Personally I would have a hard time not laughing out loud if I met someone called Jaxie.

That’s what I love about Nameberry! I learn something new each day! Thanks for the info, jackal :slight_smile:

This was my first thought too! There’s no way you could use Jaxie in the Uk! And ‘jacksie’ is not a cutesy, child-friendly euphemism either- its really horrible slang.

I first heard the word jacksie on an episode of [name_u]Jaime[/name_u] [name_m]Oliver[/name_m]. He was roasting a chicken with herbs and he said, “just shove it up the jacksie.” I know that UK slang is not the same as US slang, but still, I can’t imagine naming a kid this. It would be like naming a little girl [name_f]Fanny[/name_f], which doesn’t have the same connotation here as in the US, but I would think that the UK meaning is well known enough here as to make it off limits.

At first I was going to say that it would make a cute nickname but when I read that it’s a slang term in the UK, I changed my opinion. While I live in the US, we travel to the UK every other year and have family from there. I’d hate just knowing that it’s used that way.

Definitely not a fan of the name on it’s own at all. But… I wanted to comment… [name_u]Madigan[/name_u] is an AMAZING name. I love it!