Message: "Niobe and Jessamine"

Niobe and Jessamine

by UniqueNameLover

6/18/2012, 12:18 PM

Saw these very rare names mentioned on nameberry's blog. I LOVE super uncommon names and less that twenty babies are named Jessamine or Niobe each year.

Ny-oh-bee
Jess-uh-men

#Jessamine #Niobe

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- Nyx (Tawnee)

6/18/2012, 7:18 PM

I like both. I'm not sure I would use them, but I think they are very interesting names.

- ninjato

6/18/2012, 2:09 PM

Love them... but then rare names are good names for my middle name storage spot.

- Kat (Zimger) +3

6/18/2012, 12:58 PM

I'm not sure about Niobe, but Jessamine is a character in the Mortal Instruments Series. She is a little on the sour side of things. I'm not sure if the name was created for the book or not. But it is pretty, as is Niobe.

- Tisiphone (guardgirl15) +2

6/18/2012, 2:29 PM

I think you mean the Infernal Devices series.

Jessamine wasn't created for the series. Those books have only been out a couple years, but the name is older than that. If you read the comments for Jessamine, the first one was written in 2006.

- Pie

6/19/2012, 8:40 AM

It's been in use as a given name since at least the 1600s. It may have originally been unisex: I just found a will for a 'mariner second mate' named Jessamine who died in 1771.

- Kat (guest)

6/18/2012, 4:21 PM

Yes, that's why I said I wasn't sure. Regardless, Nice names. :)

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