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Help[Opinions] Re: Jan for a boy?
in reply to a message by dramaelf
I knew a male Jan. He was my sister's second husband. They divorced twenty-four years ago, and I haven't seen him since that time.
His name was pronounced like the first syllable of Janet. The story he told was that his parents, for some reason (this was long before sonograms) were convinced that they were going to have a girl, and were planning to name her Janet after a relative, and when he came along instead, they named him Jan.
He said that the only real problem his name ever caused was when he was in school. At the beginning of every year, he would be put into a girls' gym class, show up, and be sent to the boys' gym class.
Jan, pronounced like the first syllable of Janet, isn't all that feminine, yet it seems too feminine for a boy, in my opinion. But I really don't like the YON pronunciation, either.
His name was pronounced like the first syllable of Janet. The story he told was that his parents, for some reason (this was long before sonograms) were convinced that they were going to have a girl, and were planning to name her Janet after a relative, and when he came along instead, they named him Jan.
He said that the only real problem his name ever caused was when he was in school. At the beginning of every year, he would be put into a girls' gym class, show up, and be sent to the boys' gym class.
Jan, pronounced like the first syllable of Janet, isn't all that feminine, yet it seems too feminine for a boy, in my opinion. But I really don't like the YON pronunciation, either.
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