Is Your Name Jennifer, Jenny, Jen, Gin or Similar?
 

I have always known that Jennifer was the most popular girl's name in the US in 1963 and for many years after.

In college, there were six (6) Jennifers on my hall Freshman year :|.

I have lived with two Jennifers.

anddddddddd.

I am positive that at the reunion, half the people I met were named some variety of Jen.

Is your name Jennifer or something similar and if so, how does it impact your life? Do you have whiplash from always thinking someone is calling your name?

I was ALMOST a Jennifer but my mom changed her mind late in her pregnancy. I am glad that I ended up with the name I did; I have about 6 or more friends with a variation of the name Jennifer.

:sparklyheart:

When I order soemthing like at Starbux, I tell them my name is Pip. Its useless to say Jen. Everyone in the damm store is always named Jen.

My sister's name is Jennifer/Jennie. She's 45 years old and we have family members who still spell it Jenny. *eyeroll*

My boss insists on spelling Jen..Jenn. Pffft. Totally get it. I went thru a Jennie phase but stopped becasue I kept wanting to make the dot over the i a flower or heart.

Interesting. I only know one Jennifer and I don't have any Jennifers in my family, nor have I ever dated a Jennifer.

Seeee and I thought Mr. Jenny's name was Jenny too! :)

I have dated 2 Jennifers. I think it was narcissistic and maybe having the same name seemed enough in common at the time.

I get called Stephanie, which is my sister's name, even by people who don't know I have a sister named Stephanie.

I have always gone by Jennifer, never Jen or Jenny, even when I was little. Everyone I have ever been close with has always called me Jen and I just let them be. I only correct people when they call me Jenny.

In undergrad our group of friends called me by my last name as we had another Jennifer in our group (she was also called by her last name).

Until about 10th grade I was called Jennifer F. or "Jennifer with the red hair" by teachers and peers since at one time we had 8 in our class.

Having this name was annoying while in school, notsomuch anymore.

My Sister is Jennifer, my Cousin is Jenny, my other cousin's wife is Jenny, my other cousin named his daughter Jennifer, and one of my besties in high school was a Jenni.

Except for my Sister and Bestie, they all have the same last name:seeingstars:

There were a kzillion Jennifers in my grade. I was born in 1970. I see that dark crystal was born the same year. moxie, what year were you born?

P.S. No I am not a Jennifer.

Definitely a conspiracy!!!

What is your middle name? Mine is Lynn.

Is your name actually Gemme? It is very popular in England among the 25 to 35 group it seems.

Come on Jennifers!

Come play with us!! :bunchflowers::bunchflowers::bunchflowers:

Yeah, me too. lololololololo

I just went through my FB friends list and I only have one Jen on there...


I feel completely unpopular now.


side note: growing up I was surrounded by Kims and Kimberly's and have 6 of them on my friends list... Is it a geographical thing???

I know lots of Kimberlys too, maybe it is geographical and age related?

What year were you born Apoc? What about you Tawse? Where did you grow up? How can we decifer unless we know that stuff? lol :-)

As an aside, I think that a lot of female's middle names are Lynn (mine included). It goes with lots of first names. But, again, that could be an age/regional thing.

Like I said, I grew up with a lot of Jennifers and I was born in 1970. In Maryland.

I changed my name to Jenny (legally) about ten years ago. People assume that it's short for Jennifer, but it's not (and I hate being referred to as Jen).

Why Jenny? I honestly have no idea. I guess I just liked the way it sounded.

Words

I am not a Jennifer. However all my life I've always been friends with at least once.

Does Genevieve count as a Jennifer?

Thankfully my name is somewhat uncommon - unless you were born in the late 70s and your parents were fans of the Looking Glass, or you were born in the 90s and your parents liked the show Moesha. (Interestingly, Brandy Norwood was also born in the late 70s)

I was born in 1963 amd my parents were from TN and VA. Almost every female I know has the middle name Lynn or Lynne or similar too. lol.

I like Jenny actually. Up until I started working everyone called me Jenny, then I had a boss named Jenny, so I was forced to go with Jennifer and it stuck. My family and friends from childhood call me Jenny. It seems sweeter. :)

Actually Jennifer comes from Guenevere. I bet its closely related to Genevieve, which is a really cool name btw!

There were three of us in my grade named Jennifer. Two of us had the same birthday. I always got bummed out when they did the birthday announcements and I'd get all excited thinking my friends put one in for me, but when they got to the last name it was the other one. SHEESH!

I spell it Jenn these days. There are 8 people with the same first and last name as me at my job. I get emails intended for the one in the legal department all the time. :tease:

*raises hand*
 

I was born in 1966, and I don't think there was another Jennifer/Jenny/Jen in my small elementary school class. When I moved to a bigger town with a larger school, there were a few, but I don't remember ever feeling like there were a TON of us.

When I was little, my parents called me Jenny Lynn, adding in my middle name. I hated that. I was always Jenny, except for the summer when I turned 15, during which I thought "Jennifer" sounded much more grown up. (As an aside, I have a friend, Todd, who I met that summer, who STILL calls me Jennifer. Nobody else does. Ever.) I stayed Jenny until about age 30, at which time, somehow, I became Jen.

Now about half of my friends call me Jen, half call me Jenny. All of my kids' friends call me Momma Jenny.

I love my name, but I never thought it fit me. I wanted to be named Amy. (Or maybe Aimee.)

Jen/ny

No my name is not any of those things. Thanks for asking, have a great day.

My sister was born in 1966, too, and her middle name is also Lynn!