[TarneeW]

I love the nn Jaz for a boy. DH thinks if I like it, why not just use it as a name?! I'm not so sure....

I have suggested Jasper which DH dislikes, I'm not sold on it either although it is growing on me.

I like names that are a little different.

WDYT of the name Jaz/Jazz as a name?

Any ideas or suggestions for a name that Jaz could be used as a nn?

TIA

[felixTheCat]

no dont like it.

Its another name for ejaculate.

[la di dah]

As with many words that began in slang, there is no definitive etymology for jazz. However, the similarity in meaning of the earliest jazz citations to jasm, a now-obsolete slang term meaning spirit, energy, vigor and dated to 1860 in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, suggests that jasm should be considered the leading candidate for the source of jazz. A link between the two words is particularly supported by the Daily Californian's February 18, 1916, article, which used the spelling jaz-m, although the context and other articles in the Daily Californian from this period show that jazz was intended.

Jasm is thought to derive from or be a variant of slang jism or gism, which the Historical Dictionary of American Slang dates to 1842 and defines as "spirit; energy; spunk." Jism also means semen or sperm, the meaning that predominates today, causing jism to be considered a taboo word. Deepening the nexus among these words is the fact that "spunk" is also a slang term for semen, and that "spunk", like jism/jasm, also means spirit, energy, or courage (for example: "She showed a lot of spunk.") In the 19th and early 20th centuries, however, jism could still be used in polite contexts. Jism, or its variant jizz (which, however, is not attested in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang until 1941), has also been suggested as a direct source for jazz. A direct derivation from jism is phonologically unlikely; jasm itself would be, according to this assumption, the intermediary form.

That would bother me.

I am a huge nerdlinger with no friends, so take that for what it's worth, but it would really bother me. And jizz is still in common usage.

I like Jet?

[BobTheBottersnik...]

Yeah the origins of the word, and it's closeness to the word jizz would turn me right off.

Also, the only people I know with the nn Jaz are girls with the name Jasmine or Jasmina

[BadCat]

I would automatically assume Jazz was a girl, and probably short for Jasmine or something.

[Turn left]

I'm trying so hard to be diplomatic but since you asked, I don't even like Jaz/Jazz for a nickname, sorry I think it's horrible. At best it sounds like a pets (dogs) name, or as a nickname for Jasmine.

Please use a real name for your child, you wont regret it. There are thousands of perfectly good names already, there's really no need to invent your own.

[nothing123]

no dont like it.

Its another name for ejaculate.

It is? I thought it was Jizz?



I know a man called Jaz but his full name is Jaspinder and he's Indian. He is such a beautiful human being, it really suits him. I'm not sure that I would use it as a first name for a child, but I like it on an adult.

I would probably go for Jasper and shorten it.

[belinda1976]

That's what I call my DD2 - her name is Jasmine.

[bakesgirls]

Its another name for ejaculate.

That's jizz, not jaz/z.

Sorry OP, NMS. It sounds like a nn for a girl named Jasmine or the like.

[sylvastar]

Please go with Jasper!!!!

This was one of our 2 picks for when we had our boy - Jasper is still on my list though in case another boy comes our way...