Jessie’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Jessie
Jessie's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Jessie's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Jessie: meaning and origin
Jessie began as a Scottish pet form of Jean, Behind the Name explains, and in modern times it is also used as a short form of Jessica. Wikipedia calls it a name in its own right and generally the feminine form of Jesse. Behind the Name has a second entry for Jessie as a variant of Jesse, whose Biblical Hebrew form is Yishai.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name gives Jess, Jessa, Jessi, Jessy and Jessye as English relatives, and the Scottish Gaelic Teasag. Jess is the everyday short form, and Wikipedia notes it is used as a name by itself too.
Famous people named Jessie
Cross-country skier Jessie Diggins and teammate Kikkan Randall won the United States’ first-ever Olympic gold in the sport, in the team sprint at the 2018 Winter Olympics; Diggins went on to four World Cup overall titles. English singer Jessie J broke through when her debut single, “Do It like a Dude”, reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. And Jessie Ware’s debut album, Devotion, reached No. 5 in the UK.
Is Jessie a popular name?
Jessie has been around a long time in the US. Social Security data has it at 40th in the 1880s and still 58th in the 1900s, with its biggest numbers in the 1910s and 1920s, about 28,000 to 29,000 girls each decade. It slipped to 189th in the 1940s. Behind the Name shows it in the New South Wales top 100 in 1996, so Jessies come in every generation.
Jessie trivia
Jessie Diggins’ New Yorker praise is hard to beat. Wikipedia quotes the magazine calling her “the greatest American ever to put on a pair of skinny skis, and arguably the greatest winter endurance athlete this country has ever produced”. She also won four Olympic medals and seven World Championship medals.
Gift ideas that suit a Jessie
- For a skier. A training log for winter, in honor of Jessie Diggins.
- For a singer. Lyrics and set lists for a future pop star, in honor of Jessie J.
- For a Scottish family. A notebook for a name that began with Jean.
- For a Christmas stocking. A notebook she can start on New Year’s Day.
How Jessie can use it
Any Jessie, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Jessie can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Jessie’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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