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I am wondering if I may claim to be the original bearer of this name Jaslyn. I had this name as early as 1974 and have papers to document such.
I am of Singapore origin and was born with a Chinese background name. The official language in Singapore is English. We have quite a fair bit of English/Western influence and popular names like Jean, Albert, Doris, Patricia, Michael, Helen and Frankie were adopted by Chinese in the 50s and 60s solely because English names are easier to remember than Chinese names quite uncommon to the western world.
We are more easily remembered if we introduced ourselves as Doris and Albert as opposed to Hui Hwa and Wen Ta for example.
I remember naming myself from Sally to Rowena. Then I decided Jasmine would suit me better as I was fair and little with quite a 'sweet' disposition! Also I love Christmas Carols and had been carolling for years, hence another name choice, Carolyn depicting carols.
Then in 1974, I decided to 'coin' this new hybrid name: Jaslyn by crossing Jasmine & Carolyn (taking Jas from Jasmine & lyn from Carolyn) as I couldn't make up my mind if I like Jasmine or Carolyn better.
Since 1974 I slowly became known as Jaslyn and by 1978 I was more known by Jaslyn than my Chinese birth name. By early 80, I had a Deed Poll done for Change of Name at a lawyer's office and since then I was officially and legally known only as Jaslyn.
I noticed this name Jaslyn is more commonly found in my homeland, Singapore, after the 80s and becoming especially more popular in the 90s and also in Australia where I now reside. Most Jaslyns I hear of are Singaporeans and Australians. That points to my believe that I was the first Jaslyn, at least in Singapore and perhaps in Australia too!
I have been offered many unsolicited comments along this line: how sweet, pretty, lovely. Jaslyn means: little, fair, sweet and joyful.
I would like to hear comments to this and if anyone have papers documenting this unique name earlier than 1974. If anyone named their daughters Jaslyn could share where they may have first heard or discovered the name.
So if no one has really found out the origin of this name as spelt JASLYN, my story could be the origin behind this fairly modern name!
Welcome to the world of Jaslyn_s!
I am of Singapore origin and was born with a Chinese background name. The official language in Singapore is English. We have quite a fair bit of English/Western influence and popular names like Jean, Albert, Doris, Patricia, Michael, Helen and Frankie were adopted by Chinese in the 50s and 60s solely because English names are easier to remember than Chinese names quite uncommon to the western world.
We are more easily remembered if we introduced ourselves as Doris and Albert as opposed to Hui Hwa and Wen Ta for example.
I remember naming myself from Sally to Rowena. Then I decided Jasmine would suit me better as I was fair and little with quite a 'sweet' disposition! Also I love Christmas Carols and had been carolling for years, hence another name choice, Carolyn depicting carols.
Then in 1974, I decided to 'coin' this new hybrid name: Jaslyn by crossing Jasmine & Carolyn (taking Jas from Jasmine & lyn from Carolyn) as I couldn't make up my mind if I like Jasmine or Carolyn better.
Since 1974 I slowly became known as Jaslyn and by 1978 I was more known by Jaslyn than my Chinese birth name. By early 80, I had a Deed Poll done for Change of Name at a lawyer's office and since then I was officially and legally known only as Jaslyn.
I noticed this name Jaslyn is more commonly found in my homeland, Singapore, after the 80s and becoming especially more popular in the 90s and also in Australia where I now reside. Most Jaslyns I hear of are Singaporeans and Australians. That points to my believe that I was the first Jaslyn, at least in Singapore and perhaps in Australia too!
I have been offered many unsolicited comments along this line: how sweet, pretty, lovely. Jaslyn means: little, fair, sweet and joyful.
I would like to hear comments to this and if anyone have papers documenting this unique name earlier than 1974. If anyone named their daughters Jaslyn could share where they may have first heard or discovered the name.
So if no one has really found out the origin of this name as spelt JASLYN, my story could be the origin behind this fairly modern name!
Welcome to the world of Jaslyn_s!
This message was edited 1/13/2009, 2:28 PM
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Well, you are a fairly early Jaslyn, but as the creation of new names using the suffix -lyn was well established in English speaking countries long before 1974, you are unlikely to be the first.
After some Googling, I found a site devoted to an American rock band who tragically died in an auto crash in 1973, and one of them was a woman called Jaslyn Walker. So even if she was not born with that name but was only using it as a stage name, it was chosen before 1974:
http://www.novemsongs.com/bios/jaslynwalker.shtml
Ancestry.com also has a birth record for a "Jaslyn Elsie Jodean Hudson" born in Columbus County, North Carolina, on 30 Dec 1945.
After some Googling, I found a site devoted to an American rock band who tragically died in an auto crash in 1973, and one of them was a woman called Jaslyn Walker. So even if she was not born with that name but was only using it as a stage name, it was chosen before 1974:
http://www.novemsongs.com/bios/jaslynwalker.shtml
Ancestry.com also has a birth record for a "Jaslyn Elsie Jodean Hudson" born in Columbus County, North Carolina, on 30 Dec 1945.
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