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Thomasina?

98 replies

SupetArt · 14/05/2022 22:17

Can’t get this make out of my head despite originally settling on something else!

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Irishfarmer · 16/05/2022 15:28

I really don't like it, sorry.

SchoolFraud · 16/05/2022 15:30

Don't do it. I know someone who was called this. They changed their name.

Hadtocomment · 16/05/2022 17:17

I actually like it! But can't see a good shortening? It would need one at that length wouldn't it? Josephine is a nice name (I think anyway) with perhaps a similar feel but has good shortenings with Jo and Josie.

WeeOrcadian · 16/05/2022 17:20

"I wanted a boy and I got a girl. I'll just tweak the name"

Like Nigella

Snowiscold · 16/05/2022 17:27

Hadtocomment · 16/05/2022 17:17

I actually like it! But can't see a good shortening? It would need one at that length wouldn't it? Josephine is a nice name (I think anyway) with perhaps a similar feel but has good shortenings with Jo and Josie.

Traditionally, it’s shortened to Tamsin.

FabulousKilljoys · 16/05/2022 17:47

WeeOrcadian · 16/05/2022 17:20

"I wanted a boy and I got a girl. I'll just tweak the name"

Like Nigella

Nope. I just liked the name.

imperialminty · 17/05/2022 13:40

I think it’s the most gorgeous name - very refined. It would be TOP of my list.

Also if you’ve ever read Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia - one of the main characters is called Thomasina and is a brilliant name sake for a girl.

Luredbyapomegranate · 19/05/2022 00:12

Hugasauras · 14/05/2022 22:22

Yes, I'd assume a boy called Thomas had been expected/wanted. It feels a little like a joke name in this day and age tbh.

I like it, but regardless of that it does not imply boy was wanted - no more than Georgina, Harriet or Louisa are joke names or scream that a George/Henry/Louis was what was really wanted

SheeceRearsmith · 19/05/2022 18:44

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 16/05/2022 14:56

Much nicer imo!

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I absolutely agree @MrsPelligrinoPetrichor !

Diverseopinions · 19/05/2022 19:50

It's actually ok, with nothing negative about the sounds. Tommy will be a sweet shortening, but it will be good to have a serious version for formal occasions. Thomasina is so good because of the rhythm - actually musical; the short sharp but pleasant 'Thom' stops it being all flowery and round, soft sounds. It's quite easy to say, tripping of the tongue: not like ' Antoinetta' for example, or 'Araminta' or 'Luciana'. You could actually say 'Thomsina' quickly and the name would sound the same.

collieresponder88 · 19/05/2022 19:56

I know a girl called Thomasin and she's lovely

mycatisannoying · 22/05/2022 09:05

It's just so twee.

Snowiscold · 22/05/2022 10:23

mycatisannoying · 22/05/2022 09:05

It's just so twee.

I think it’s the opposite of twee - it’s a rather grand, grown-up name with history behind it.

IrisVersicolor · 22/05/2022 10:33

Very pretty.

SirChenjins · 22/05/2022 10:45

It was quite a common thing to do in some part of Scotland years ago - Thomasina, Jamesina, Murdina, Alexina, that kind of thing, and then shortened to Ina.

Kangaruby · 22/05/2022 10:48

I really like it, reminds me of the film.

DancingUnderTheLights · 22/05/2022 10:48

I wouldn't use it myself but I like it. It doesn't scream "I wanted a boy" or "boy's name" to me. It seems posh to me in a way that Thomas doesn't but maybe that's just because the people I've come across with it were.

Birdie746 · 22/05/2022 10:55

Tammi Terrell's real name was Thomasina. She was so pretty 😍

MurderAtTheBeautyPageant · 22/05/2022 11:02

I find it quite clunky and ugly.

TriciaMcMillan · 22/05/2022 11:05

I knew a Geoffrina. Interestingly, my brother went through a phase in his late teens of randomly calling people Geoffrey, to his great hilarity. After months off this, we were having a family dinner and I made a passing reference to a woman at work, to which he responded 'what, Geoffrina?' thinking he was being particularly amusing as, obviously, that's not a thing. I said 'actually yes, Geoffrina, weirdly that is her name', and there was just a stunned silence. He still occasionally double checks I wasn't winding him up some 20 years later.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 22/05/2022 11:44

MotherOfCrocodiles · 14/05/2022 22:50

Tangent, but Nigella is not just a form of Nigel , it's a lovely flower also known as - "love in a mist"

I read an interview with Nigella Lawson once, where she said that her grandmother cultivated Nigella plants, and they were her favourite flowers. She (grandma) has wanted a daughter so she could call her Nigella, but ended up with boys, hence Nigel; when he had daughters, that’s where Nigella came from.

I thought this was a rather sweet story until I realised that Nigella has 2 sisters called “male name-a”.

MurderAtTheBeautyPageant · 22/05/2022 11:46

Nigella and her sisters were given awful names.

stacestation · 01/06/2022 03:48

Thomasina is a lovely name.

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