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in reply to a message by Bee123
It's neither quirky nor boring, neither retro nor middle aged.
I feel like it's a very standard and modest short name like Mary and Anna. It doesn't seem that commonplace to me - the main associations I have are the idiom "plain Jane," and Dick & Jane, the characters in the midcentury readers. See Jane run. Those give it a generic air, but it's not any more forgettable than Mary or Anna. It's timeless, like Robert. Jane is less forgettable, to me, than Sarah or Elizabeth or William.
I get a more youthful and sassy vibe from Jane than Joan, which IMO is the dated (or retro if you prefer) and boring one. Jane seems to me more assertive than Anna, and more dynamic than Mary, but as dignified and versatile as either. I think the similarity to June and Jade makes Jane have a similar appeal to those, only it seems less frivolous.
I'm pro-Jane-as-a-baby-name.
- mirfak
I feel like it's a very standard and modest short name like Mary and Anna. It doesn't seem that commonplace to me - the main associations I have are the idiom "plain Jane," and Dick & Jane, the characters in the midcentury readers. See Jane run. Those give it a generic air, but it's not any more forgettable than Mary or Anna. It's timeless, like Robert. Jane is less forgettable, to me, than Sarah or Elizabeth or William.
I get a more youthful and sassy vibe from Jane than Joan, which IMO is the dated (or retro if you prefer) and boring one. Jane seems to me more assertive than Anna, and more dynamic than Mary, but as dignified and versatile as either. I think the similarity to June and Jade makes Jane have a similar appeal to those, only it seems less frivolous.
I'm pro-Jane-as-a-baby-name.
- mirfak
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