• webadict@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Eh, the kid could have worse, and it seems pretty fitting for the name’s origins.

    If you think of children as blessings, and want to change an existing name a little – in this case, Jessica – it makes sense. The first recorded instance of Jessica is from Shakespeare, who could’ve changed the biblical Iesca (Jeska) to Jessica by mixing Jesse into it (or making Jesse into a woman’s name… or other potential origins like the word jess being turned into a name.) And you consider Bless to be a name (though rather unpopular), so it wouldn’t even be particularly odd for the name.

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      26 days ago

      Anyways then you and your entire family and social group die in the same event, like a volcano burying your village.