The girl is 14 years old, she has few friends, poor school performance. As she herself believes, her stupid name is to blame. As soon as during her acquaintance she has to call him, she falls into a stupor. People chuckle, she tries to leave the house less, and at school she feels like a black sheep.
When a girl was born in the family of Peter and Alena, joy knew no bounds. Before the daughter, the couple only got boys. There were already two teenage sons - Alyoshka and Sashka. Dad's pride, mom's joy, grandparents' favorites. Despite this, Alena always dreamed of a daughter, she wanted to buy elegant dresses for her, to braid pigtails, to bring up a real lady in her. And the miracle happened! Since the parents dreamed of their daughter very much, they approached the choice of a name for her very responsibly.
First, grandparents called for help, then mothers' forums, looked at names by date of birth, by horoscope, looked through statistics of fashionable female names. I really wanted my daughter to be special, unlike others, and the parents really succeeded. Already at the eighth month of pregnancy, my mother knew for sure that she would call her daughter Polina. Fields, Polechka, Polinushka. It would be the perfect name for a girl, then a girl, and then a woman.
But everything changed right before the birth. The girl's mother watched some very interesting TV series, and the name of the main character fell to her soul so much that she decided to call her little girl that way. Everyone was afraid to contradict the pregnant woman. And the name was: Jessica. Nothing unusual, a popular name in other countries, but in Russia... Although, perhaps, children are now called by such names, of course. But in the village where the girl's family lived, she was the only one Jessica.
And now, the time of birth, Jessica Petrovna was born. Parents affectionately called their daughter Jesse, in the kindergarten the children called her Sesya, or even Sisya. And already at school, a quiet horror began. The boys were especially cruel, they scoffed at the poor girl as best they could, she shut herself up, and for the rest of her life she hated her name.
When Jessica was still quite a baby, she did not perceive her name as something terrible, as if she did not care, or maybe she simply did not understand anything. But every year she got more and more complexes about this. Around were Masha, Vicki, Katya, and the very Polina, but not a single Jessica. It was doubly terrible that the girl's patronymic was Petrovna. No, if some Robertovna or Edgarovna was there, it would probably be more impressive. And here is Jessica Petrovna, this is awful horror!
The girl came home from school in tears, to the questions of her parents, she told everything, and begged to change her name. But dad and mom were categorical, they believed that a name is given to a person only once in a lifetime, and if you change it, you can greatly ruin your fate. It's time to get a passport, but the parents do not agree to any.
Jessica Petrovna has only one way out - to wait for her majority. Mom still hopes that her daughter will change her mind, because she likes the name so much, because it is so beautiful, creative, not like everyone else's. And Jesse is counting the days when he can cross out his ruined past.
Before naming your child after a TV character, please think carefully. I even know that in some country the boy was named Covid, and the girl was called Pandemic. How is that? It just doesn't fit in my head!
Do we have so few good names? Do you really think that your child would like a strange name? In addition, it is worth taking into account the surname and patronymic of the future baby, so that it is both consonant and foolishly not working out.
Cases are different, but few people like exclusive names!
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