Playdate for JAX included his friends ORD, IAD, LAX and LGA. Unfortunately, his friend SFO unable to attend.

Do not name your child after an airport.

Go with Jackson and call him Jax as a nickname.

It's a cute name, OP! Don't listen to these overly critical people on a random discussion board.

Anonymous wrote:I'm imagining you in the following dialogue:

Person whose name is Jax: "Hi, my name is Jax."
You: "No, it isn't."

No, I'm too polite for that.

"Nice to meet you."

Then, walk away snickering.

Sounds like a name that surely to be featured on Teen Mom or 16 and Pregnant.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else think it's edgy in a good way?

Nope.

I really like Jaxton as a variation of Jackson. Jackson is too common. Jax is a perfectly acceptable nickname for either.

Great name for a dog.

I'm imagining you in the following dialogue:

Person whose name is Jax: "Hi, my name is Jax."
You: "No, it isn't."

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I never understand this "not actually a name" argument. If your name is Jax, then Jax is actually a name. And the fact is that there are people whose name is Jax. It was ranked #223 in 2013. Javier was #222; Myles was #224.

It's not even in the SSA database prior to 2005.

Sons of Anarchy debuted in 2008. It's a nickname of a fictional character, and has grown in popularity since then. But it's not actually a name. It doesn't mean anything except "nickname for a fictional character on the television show Sons of Anarchy."

So your definition of a name is "something that means something"? Do you consider Apple a name? How about Comfort or Delight -- are those names? How about John -- what does that mean?

Well, Apple definitely means something -- it's a fruit. Comfort and Delight have definitions as well, although, no, I don't consider them "names."

John is Biblical. It means Grace or Mercy of the Lord.

Jax isn't anything. Except maybe a misspelling of the toy you pick up when you bounce a little rubber ball.

You looked that up on the Internet. Plus actually "John", the name in English, doesn't mean that.

And if Comfort and Delight mean something but still aren't names (even though I know people whose names are Comfort and Delight), then please explain to me, what makes something a name?

John means what it does; the language variation on it doesn't matter. I didn't have to look it up to know it's a Biblical name or to know it's meaning. Some of us actually have a religious education. He was an apostle, for Heaven's sake.

What makes a name? Well, for starters, it has to mean something, be descriptive. Traditionally names derived from occupations or villages or tribal affiliation. More recently, they've derived from something with meaning, or desirable attributes, so "Comfort" and "Delight," while cringeworthy, are still descriptive and closer to "names" than Jax, which literally means nothing and describes nothing. It might as well be Rdbttw.

Sons of Anarchy --- I knew my coworker was a redneck idiot -- now I know where he picked the name from.

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I never understand this "not actually a name" argument. If your name is Jax, then Jax is actually a name. And the fact is that there are people whose name is Jax. It was ranked #223 in 2013. Javier was #222; Myles was #224.

It's not even in the SSA database prior to 2005.

Sons of Anarchy debuted in 2008. It's a nickname of a fictional character, and has grown in popularity since then. But it's not actually a name. It doesn't mean anything except "nickname for a fictional character on the television show Sons of Anarchy."

So your definition of a name is "something that means something"? Do you consider Apple a name? How about Comfort or Delight -- are those names? How about John -- what does that mean?

Well, Apple definitely means something -- it's a fruit. Comfort and Delight have definitions as well, although, no, I don't consider them "names."

John is Biblical. It means Grace or Mercy of the Lord.

Jax isn't anything. Except maybe a misspelling of the toy you pick up when you bounce a little rubber ball.

You looked that up on the Internet. Plus actually "John", the name in English, doesn't mean that.

And if Comfort and Delight mean something but still aren't names (even though I know people whose names are Comfort and Delight), then please explain to me, what makes something a name?

Anonymous wrote:You should watch a few episodes of Vanderpump rules.

Buts it's not even Jax's real name. He made it up.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not edgy in a bad way. It's cheesy in a bad way. And looks terrible on a resume.

Have to agree with this. Definitely not edgy.

+2. Sounds cheesy and trashy and made up.

Too Kool for Skool.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not edgy in a bad way. It's cheesy in a bad way. And looks terrible on a resume.

Have to agree with this. Definitely not edgy.

+2. Sounds cheesy and trashy and made up.

Jax is short for Jacksonville. As in Jax Beach. I'm from Jax and can't imagine it as a name. But people use Austin, Dallas, Savannah..... So maybe it will catch on.