Is Jo Jones too much alliteration?

shananagins · September 2011

My favorite girl name is Josephine, NN Jo, but our last name is Jones and I don't know if I'm ok with Jo Jones. H likes it, because he likes Jo Jo. I don't love Josie, I really perfer Jo for a NN.

If these babies are both girls I think I want them to be Cordelia and Josephine. WDYT?

brookelynpaisley · September 2011

It's not the alliteration so much as it is the repeating "Jo" sounds. It sounds like Jojones.

HannahO28 · September 2011

I love Cordelia, but Josephine Jones does not work at all IMO.

PhilsWife07 · September 2011

It doesn't work. Sorry. Love Cordelia though.

SharonWantsABaby · September 2011

I agree with PP's, it just doesn't work. Sorry. GL!

brookelynpaisley · September 2011

What about:

Elodie

Viola

Georgiana

Victoria

Sabrina

Rosalie

Paulina

Eugenia

Estelle

Veronica or Vera

Claudia

Gabrielle

Isadora

Octavia

Evangeline

Guinevere or Genevieve

Francesca

jennasita · September 2011

We too are Joneses and this is why I never would use the name Jonah. I really love this name, but could never do that to a child. I love Cordelia, however. It's my daughter's mn!

I guess Josephine Jones isn't so bad, but Jo Jones is horrible. Sorry.

lulling · September 2011

I like Josephine Jones! But I don't like Jo Jones. I grew up in eastern Ohio. Back home we eat jojos. They are potatoes. That is all I think of. That, and if you don't have it written out in front of you and you just say it, you kind of don't know where the first name is ending and where the last name is beginning.

blu-eyedwife · September 2011

Definitely too much.

And for some reason it makes me think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine.

Dominique1219 · September 2011

I really don't like Jo Jones, it's not a name you would take seriously. Like Cordelia though!

HeyJune · September 2011

I think Josephine Jones is very pretty, but Jo Jones sounds like someone stuttering to me. Repetition of the first sound occurs often with stutterers, so it comes out like La Laura or Ja James.

Could you call her Josephine?

tusshie2004 · September 2011

HannahO28:
I love Cordelia, but Josephine Jones does not work at all IMO.

This!

kygirlie113 · September 2011

I love Cordelia and I love Josephine. But, I would not do Jo Jones; it's just too much. I would find something else to go with Cordelia.

And, when I first skimmed the title of this post, I thought you wrote Jo Jonas (as in Jonas Brothers), and I was like hell to the no!

SheenaNash1 · September 2011

I don't like it, it just reminds me of Joe Jonas. Blech.

elise.daggett · September 2011

I love Josephine and chances are she won't be a Jones forever. Go for it!

EastCoastBride · September 2011

Sorry, Jo Jones is horrible.

Josephine Jones isn't fantastic, but it's doable. But Jo Jones? Ugh, no.

shananagins · September 2011

Thanks everyone! I've always loved Josephine, but I didn't think Jo Jones would work. Bummre, since it really is my favorite girl name. Crying

I'll keep looking.

curlylocks3 · September 2011

I wouldn't use it. Could you use it as a MN maybe and her NN could still involve Jo then (like make a NN out of a shortened version of her FN+Jo)?

queenbone · September 2011

This is tough because I love Cordelia and Josephine together, but I hate alliteration.

One of our friends dated a woman named Joliene who went by JoJo. I just think it is dreadful for a grown up. Plus, because my DH is prone to immaturity, he was constantly making french fry jokes about her.

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