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Jessamine! It's gorgeous, and has history while still working in a modern world. Jessie works easily as nickname, but if she ever wants a less common name, it wouldn't require a whole lot of effort, just a few reminders to people that she prefers her full name now. And I think the people pronouncing it -meen will be in the minority. Also, Jasmine (for me, at least) has much more of a zzz sound in it.

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I don't know why, but Jessamine reminds me of dark green ivy climbing up a high stone wall. Quite a romantic name, and classic while underused. I guess what I mean by that is that it would be difficult to date a Jessamine to an era in the past eighty-odd years, unlike Susan or Florence. I would think the parents were quite bookish (in a good way, obviously), maybe one of them teaches/studies history or literature or something.