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Taima: A Boy or Girl's Name?

16 replies

Snowdropfairy · 03/04/2011 10:24

Hi

DH and i both like this name but we are worried about other peoples perseption of the name.

So if you heared the name: Taima Griffiths

Would you think the person would be a girl or a boy?

PS please answer without serching first

I will explain more in a bit

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cath476 · 03/04/2011 10:24

girl

suzikettles · 03/04/2011 10:26

girl

Snowdropfairy · 03/04/2011 10:40

Thank you for your replies.

I have only heared of it for a girl. My Huaband found the name in a baby book and its native american name for a boy meaning Thunder.

I dont think anyone would know that and just think we were mean to call a boy a girls name!

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EricNorthmansMistress · 03/04/2011 10:48

It sounds like a girl's name. Are you native american? Because if not it's also a bit pretentious.

Snowdropfairy · 03/04/2011 11:07

Eric - thats what i think too but then again i called my son Aaron and i'm Welsh so we cant have everything

My Husband likes American and woluld love to live there and likes the culture and we got married in America. I have family in Texas and friends in other part of the country. So i think it might work but then i agree if we are not that culture than why take a name from it!

But then again i know english people who have given their child irish names and people from India give their children English names so it swings in round abouts.

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BuntyPenfold · 03/04/2011 13:15

I would think of a girl, but I know a Taina (Finnish)

Emelene · 03/04/2011 14:22

I think girl straight away. It's the "ma" ending. It's like Jemma, Emma ...

TheSecondComing · 03/04/2011 14:29

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suzikettles · 03/04/2011 14:47

Tamar's a real name: biblical, female.

SilkStalkings · 03/04/2011 20:45

People generally assume that any name ending in a is a girl's name.

expatinscotland · 03/04/2011 20:46

I knew a girl with that name who has an American mother and a Kuwaiti father.

Snowdropfairy · 04/04/2011 10:48

Thank you.

Taima has now gone on my Girls list.

Thank you

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MackerelOfFact · 04/04/2011 11:04

I would say girl. Or lion handler.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 04/04/2011 11:29

YY mackerel. OP, it isn't really a nice name for either sex.

DELHI · 04/04/2011 17:19

Definitely sounds like a girl, but i don't particularly like it myself.

Mousesmummy · 04/04/2011 18:09

Tamar . . . Valley Donkey Park
[sorry don't like it at all]

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