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

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by dark_crystal

my name is Jennifer
i was born in 1970
my eighth grade yearbook had 3 of us in a row

Jennifer Bra*****
Jennifer Bre***
Jennifer Bri****

when i was in middle school and high school i was jenny, then jenni, then JENNIFER, then jeni

in college i was jennifer, then jenny again

now when people ask my preference i say "whatever you don't already have" as in- if you know a Jenny i'll be a jennifer, if you know both i can be jen

i changed so much i figure i have forfeited my right to be picky

interesting trivia- i have never dated another Jennifer

how about ya'll?

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.

[dark_crystal]

Originally Posted by Apocalipstic

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.

no Mr. Jenny is just paranoid about having "her business" on the internet. it was like pulling teeth to get her to let me have a picture of us together on my facebook, and she herself has NO facebook OR bfp login

sooooooo i can pretty much blab about her all i want and she'll never know

[princessbelle]

Ya know...

I think the only Jennifers i know are on here. I don't even remember any in school. But, there are a lot online.

BTW...i absolutely adore that name. It is so very pretty. Always thought so, all of the variations.

Maybe i'll join the club and change my name.

[moxie]

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.

[chai~]

oh, this made me giggle!!!
I am not a "Jennifer", but I have 2 "Jen's" in my immediate family.
In grade school, there were 2.
In high school there were 4 or 5.

[MsTinkerbelly]

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

[ScandalAndy]

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.

[jenny]

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

[dark_crystal]

i feel like, for how many of us are out there, Jennifers are underrepresented in the in terms of public figures

i mean there are Jennifers

1. Aniston
2. Beals
3. Connelly
4. Coolidge
5. Finnigan
6. Garner
7. Grey
8. Jason Leigh
9. Jones
10. Lopez
11. Love Hewitt
12. Tilly

and that SEEMS like a lot, but not when you consider moxie had 8 in one class!

do Jennifers get famous under their middle names instead b/c the first is too common?

OR

are we slackers?

OR IS IT A CONSPIRACY

[DapperButch]

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.

[dark_crystal]

Originally Posted by dark_crystal

i feel like, for how many of us are out there, Jennifers are underrepresented in the in terms of public figures

i mean there are Jennifers

1. Aniston
2. Beals
3. Connelly
4. Coolidge
5. Finnigan
6. Garner
7. Grey
8. Jason Leigh
9. Jones
10. Lopez
11. Love Hewitt
12. Tilly

and that SEEMS like a lot, but not when you consider moxie had 8 in one class!

do Jennifers get famous under their middle names instead b/c the first is too common?

OR

are we slackers?

OR IS IT A CONSPIRACY

Bumping this thread bc it has been a while and i wonder if more Jennifers have accumulated