Jo

Good nickname for Josephine.

I love it as a given, middle name or short form for boys, and as a middle or double name for girls.

So frilly and 1950's sounding! Love, love, love!

Jo is certainly not ugly. What a horrid thing to say. A lovely name for a girl with spirit.

Jo is cute as a nickname for a girl and way better than Josie.

Ugly and too short as a full name.

Love this as a middle name or as a nickname! Had a crazy dream one time and now all I want is to name my daughter Harper Jo. It fits with so many different names and it’s also unisex which is a plus.

My full first name is Jo and while it is pretty common in the UK, it is not common as a first name in the US and it was kind of awful growing up with it. The masculine form of Joe is much more common here and I had to explain why I was a girl named Jo to every new person I met and that yes, it does have a feminine form. It’s actually very common here as a middle name but people never seem to make the connection to it as a first name. I was named after Jo March in Little Women and I love that character, so in that way it has been pretty cool and I am always really happy when a remake comes out and my name becomes popular again!

Love as a first name.

I love this as a nickname for either gender.

My middle name is Jo (Allie Jo) and I love it! As for the people who say this shouldn't be a first name, I agree, but not because it's a nickname. My first name is normally a nickname, but it's my full name, so it's okay to have a nickname as a full name. But, I don't think it should be a first name. It sounds better as a middle name.

It is just too short on its own for me. Sort of like Mo or Bo. I feel the same way for Joe, even though it's a letter longer. I love Josephine and Johannes, though, Jo for a girl and Joe for a boy.

My middle name is Jo (not short for anything, just Jo) and I have never liked it. As a child the other kids all used to say I had a boys middle name and some teachers INSISTED that I was spelling it wrong and always used to add an 'e' on the end to make it 'Joe' which is definitely a boys name! My mum was furious! However I think it goes well with my first name- Maisie Jo.

If I hear this name, I immediately think of Little Women, which makes me think, "classic", which makes me think, "old fashioned", which makes me think, "old". So I think this would either fit a little girl or an old woman, but not anything in between. So you could go by Jo until about nine, and then go by your real name (Joanne or something) and then do Jo again when you're old.

I love this name! It's become one of my (many and various) nicknames, after a character I play. The only thing is, her name is just "Jo", not short for anything. Naming someone outright with a name that's usually a nickname is probably a bad idea, in retrospect; you have to spend a lot of time afterwards constantly explaining how it's not a nickname!

Nice as a nickname, bad as a legal name.

This is far too minimalist and youthful. I have to say that I have never heard or read about a guy who spells his nickname Jo. Girls and women spell it Jo, guys go by Joe. So, I'd say this spelling looks a bit feminine for guys.

A bit short, sort of raging and easily disturbed. It requires a long supportive middle name.

I prefer J-o-e if this name is going to be used for a boy.

"Jo" reminds me of some big girl, blunt and rash, sort of foolish, although my given name is "Jo" (In Chinese "Qiao"). :(