Jack

• This is just the average, wholesome American name. I fully intend to name my first son Jack. Of course, my love of this name has nothing to do with the fact that I just happened to start preferring it right after I had seen Titanic for the very first time.

• I like this name because of its simplicity and its wildness. It sounds like a character in a great adventure novel, or a great romance, or both!

• A lot of people have this name, but I still love it. Simple and traditional. It also reminds me of Jack Skellington off of the Nightmare Before Christmas, haha. Tim Burton is a genius...

• short, tough, and is almost descriptive. To have the name Jack, you need to be good and solid, or tough and mean. And, you probably want to be a better man........Kudos to Jack Nicholson. Jack is as good as it gets. (Yes, I really said that!)

• I LOVE the name JACK-cause it has a nice sound to it.

• Strong sounding and can't be shortened, suits young and old alike, reminds me of someone with a determined character

• a sweet name.

• classic, strong

• NOT a nickname for John. John, to me, is too plain. Jack is spunky, fun. And Jackie is cute for a little boy.

• a bit too common for me but I love the sound of the name, short, strong sounds in the name, great for a grown man, a confident sounding name

• Jack Barnaby: a really cute, fun name

• Jack Robert: Very powerful sounding. But still cute for a little boy.

Jack started out as a medieval pet form of John. In the middle ages, pet forms were made by adding the suffixes -kin or -cock to names. Jack was a shortening of Jankin. Many of these pet forms survive in surname form, such as Jenkins, Hodgkin (Hodge was a short form of Roger), Hancock (form of Henry), and Hitchcock (Hitch was a short form of Richard).
See Also: John

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