Boys Middle Name to go with Jem

Zombie thread, grrrrrr!!!!!!!

Jem Charles
Jem Henry
Jem William
Jem David
Jem Thomas

I like it, OP, though personally I'd give him James or Jeremy on the birth certificate. But it's fine not to.

I prefer Jem short for James.

Jem Christopher
Jem Andrew
Jem Edward
Jem Arthur
Jem Lawrence
Jem Nicholas
Jem Daniel
Jem Lewis
Jem Nathaniel
Jem Oliver
Jem Patrick
Jem Lucas
Jem Frederick
Jem Thomas
Jem Robert
Jem Theodore

Rio? :)

I have just come across your thread and found it quite interesting. I know it is an old post but felt I needed to add my bit. I have a boy (now 20 yr old) he is called Jem, our surname is also two syllable beginning with "B" we gave him the middle name Nathan. We have had only positive comments about his name, it would be interesting to know if you went with it x

I love the name Jeremy but it got slated by all my family when I suggested it as a name for my DS. Anyway think Jeremy James is nice or Jeremy Adam.

Jollister, I like Jerome Gregory. Are you going to call him Jem? FWIW, I don't think it's feminine at all, I have a relative called Jem and it just seems like a man's name to me.

I think names starting with El such as Elliot or Elija or Elias are far more feminine, but obviously that's entirely subjective.

I love Billy too. I used family names for my son too. I'm very glad. No regrets.

Anyway. Nice choices IMO, unusual now but still classics, just quirky classics.

I do actually work with a man called Jem Stone.
Seriously.

you see just HOW strongly I feel about it....

OP, FWIW I love Jem too.

Top choice for me for next DS is Jerome Gregory. (Already have a William, known for now as Billy, and as I am in the "give a child/adult options on their name" camp, I would want to do the same with a Jem. Prefer Jerome to Jeremy or James, hence Jerome. Gregory is DB name, Billy has my late dad's name for a MN).

I know a couple of Jems, just Jem. I love it as a small person name but IMHO it might lack gravitas in an adult. Others will of course disagree, that's what makes the world such a fun place.... .

OP, FWIW I love Jem too.

Top choice for me for next DS is Jerome Gregory. (Already have a William, known for now as Billy, and as I am in the "give a child/adult options on their name" camp, I would want to do the same with a Jem. Prefer Jerome to Jeremy or James, hence Jerome. Gregory is DB name, Billy has my late dad's name for a MN).

I know a couple of Jems, just Jem. I love it as a small person name but IMHO it might lack gravitas in an adult. Others will of course disagree, that's what makes the world such a fun place.... .

Perhaps some people don't want to have to 'learn to cope with' their name, MadameGazelle?
You are of course entitled to your opinion, but having seen with a family member (not one of my DC) the extent to which he disliked his name and was desperate to change it, I think that a little room for flexibility is a good thing.

But what a ridiculous assumption to make themildmanneredjanitor ; that someone might get to a certain age and think their name is unbearably twee - your name is your name and the vast majority of people learn to cope with it. He might get to 24 and find the longer version of his name unbearably twee and change it by Deed Poll - you can't predict these things and I find it a bit silly that people feel the need to assign their child 2 names in case they grow out of one of them .

Jem's a cool name but I do agree with other posters that it might be good to give him a longer, more adaptable name to fall back on when he's older.

Jem differs from Sam, Jim etc in that they're far more familiar and don't have a slightly feminine sound, plus most Sams are Samuel and most Jims are James/Jamie.

Anyway, middle names.... Not an easy one - which is obviously why you've posted!

A name beginning with C would work well with the soft sound of Jem but would give you JCB as initials.

Alexander is nice but JAB not great initials.

How about:

Jem Duncan B__
Jem Dominic B__
Jem Kingsley B__
Jem Roscoe B__
Jem Raphael B__

Good luck! Please let us know what you decide

I love Jem either on its own or as a shortening of Jeremiah (not Jeremy!). Your best bet would be a three to four syllable name, I think.

How about:
Tobias
Xavier
Ossian
Phineas
Sebastian
Alexander

How about William.

I am of agreement that a consonant is better. I'm thinking along the lines that J(Vowel)B could lead to a horrible nickname.

Never thought of Jem, not a choice I would make but it's individual and not horrible.

Don't listen to them all. Jem is an absolutely fantastic name for a boy. (My ds is Jem - not short for anything.)

Cem (pronounced Jem) is a Turkish name too.

For middle names, have you got anything that has sentimental value? We used family names. And for ds, who has an unusual first name, his second name is a bit more usual (though still 'chav' apparently, despite being named after a v posh ancestor ).

lucybrad, I think it's because Jem sounds as if it could be short for Jemima/Jemma.

Jeremiah is great, much prefer it to Jeremy.

But it doesn't matter if his name was Jeremy, themildmanneredjanitor; he was known as Jem; that's the point I was trying to make . OP - both of my children have names that are actually abbreviations of longer names, because I wanted their name to be their name, and more importantly to be something that couldn't be shortened or given a nick name. Personally I don't understand it when people give their children long first names then immediately call them by the shortened version or a nickname - why bother giving them the longer name in the first place if you love Jem go for it; as I said before, I love it