Nina or Jemima (g) Arthur or Theo (b)

[SummerMonths]

I'd appreciate all views on our top two names for a girl and for a boy.

How do you imagine children with these names? Do you like the names?

Nina or Jemima (g) Arthur or Theo (b)

TIA

[Sophronia]

Jemima and Arthur. I like Nina too though, not keen on Theo.

[SoftBlocks]

Nina and Theo.

[Moodyblue1]

Jemima & Arthur are lovely names. I quite like Theo too

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

I love Jemima.

I quite like Nina.

Not keen on Arthur.

Theo is ok.

[reuset]

Jemima and Arthur

[scatterthenuns]

Jemima and Arthur

[celtictoast]

Nina and Theo

[CakeRattleandRoll]

Nina
Theo (but only if Theodore on bc, otherwise Arthur)

[TattieHowkerz]

Nina is nice. Dislike Jemima, find it a bit wet.
Arthur is OK, but feels a bit like a going off the boil trend. Prefer Theo.

[Lunastarfish]

I don't like Arthur but love Jemima and Nine. I'm a bit meh re Theo

[Katarzyna79]

I like jemima not keen on theo or Arthur but pushed to choose I'd go with the more English sounding Arthur.

[Katarzyna79]

I think Arthur is celtic in origin although to me sounds more English I should say British before I get attacked lol

[Allthatnonsense]

Love Nina, adore Jemima, like Arthur.

[RiverTam]

Nina
Theo

[ashesandfire]

Love Nina! I like Arthur, because Art and Artie are cool nicknames.
Jemima is OK. A bit try-hard IMHO.
Not that keen on Theo.

[JanuaryJuniper]

Nina and Art (just to be awkward) but honestly you couldn't go wrong with any of your choices!

[NadiaWadia]

Nina and Theo definitely! They are very cool names, and fairly unusual.

Jemima is also nice, but I have heard it has unfortunate connotations in the US, apparently. (An 'Aunt Jemima' was a stereotype of an older black woman, from the slavery era) Don't know how much notice you should take of that, as it's not our history, of course, and it's a nice sounding name, from the bible, I think.

I know Arthur is very popular at the moment, but it's still very much 'little old man' to me, so I don't like it much.

[Rosaaa]

Nina and Arthur

[SummerMonths]

Thanks all.

So far the results are
Nina: 11
Jemima: 8
Arthur: 8
Theo: 6

So not much in it but people prefer my girls names to my boys.

I think I am leaning towards Nina which I see as multi-cultural, timeless and rare yet easy to spell.

Not sure on the boys. I'm also pondering on Alexander.

[MrsCaecilius]

Jemima is really pretty. Not so keen on Nina, but mainly because I associate it with a really annoying Nina at school.

I like Arthur, strong British name, but I'm not so keen on Art/Artie as nn. Theo I like as a nn for Theodore. Its a bit short on its own.

Alexander on the other hand, awesome name! Good range of nn from Al, Alex, Xander. Absolutely timeless.

[tinymeteor]

Nina and Theo!

It may just be me, but Jemima sounds super posh, whereas Nina is neutral and very pretty. Theo's a great name. Arthur is good but very popular round our way.

[squoosh]

Nina and Theo

[ShmooBooMoo]

Nina and Leo (not Theo, hate Arthur...I know many love it but it just makes me think of old men). Jemima is okay but I don't like the shortening of Jemma.
Yes, definitely Nina and Leo (odd that I love Leo and hate Theo....).

[TinyMonkey]

Loads of Theos around, lovely name though. Nina is nice. I know a few little Arthurs and think it is a great name.

Jemima makes me think of posh Sloaney types.