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Please tell my sister this is a horrible idea

213 replies

Siilka · 17/09/2022 12:43

So, my sister told us last night her names ideas, and she was asking which we prefer. They decided that her husband and her would mix their names to create a new name.

So if it is a girl

Jamifer or Jeniams

A boy :

Jems
Jamer

We all told us it was horrible. But she insist on saying "stranger will find that cute". What do you think

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ninjafoodienovice · 17/09/2022 13:47

I suspect you'll be in for a lifetime of just calling then 'my niece or my nephew'

Is your sister a bit thick? Perhaps you need to show her this thread. Hopefully bils parents will be very interfering and put a stop to the nonsense

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 13:46

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll hahahaha!

Whenever someone references Mr I.Am I can’t help but mutter “that Wil.I.am, that Will.I.am, I do not like that Wil.I.am!”

Even though I do quite like him. And probably would both in a box and with a fox.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 13:46

Refimaj?
Like Heaven spelt backwards...
This, for some reason, puts me in mind of medicated talcum powder.

Nobody really uses talcum powder nowadays, so that wouldn't really work; but Evian water is popular?

SudocremOnEverything · 17/09/2022 13:45

Glorious.

Semajiffer is lovely too and retains the Mai shortening.

Or just majiffer.

inejame. Can be shortened to inej but only if you pronounce it with the hard j sound from James at the end. Not something that might sound like an actual name!

Courgettecity · 17/09/2022 13:44

Man, and I thought I had cursed my child with the world’s worst names. If she goes with Jamifer I shall abdicate and let her rule.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 13:44

Maj for short
Very regal

I wonder if there will be any ardent royalists who had a baby last Thursday and called it Elizabarles? Long may s/he live, if so.

jays · 17/09/2022 13:43

Oh you’re at it or she is, no one would do that!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 13:42

are we pronouncing Jenniams as Jenny-ams or similar to popular entertainer Will.I.Am?

Apparently, he has a sister called Gill.I.An. From what I hear, she's a champion at bill.i.ards.

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 13:42

SueDCreme · 17/09/2022 13:37

Refimaj?

Like Heaven spelt backwards...

This, for some reason, puts me in mind of medicated talcum powder.

GlitterB0mb · 17/09/2022 13:40

🤣🤣🤣🤣 those names are up there with Balonz! She has to be pulling your leg!

SueDCreme · 17/09/2022 13:38

Maj for short

Very regal

SueDCreme · 17/09/2022 13:37

Refimaj?

Like Heaven spelt backwards...

SudocremOnEverything · 17/09/2022 13:37

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 13:35

You have such a way with names.

Such an awful awful way 😂

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Apparently so.

How about Niames? This one has the added advantage that initially everyone will think your parents were idiots who mispronounced niamh. But then you can explain that they were in fact egotistical idiots instead.

SammyScrounge · 17/09/2022 13:36

Awful, absolutely awful. Your sister's child is facing a lifetime of having to repeat her name over and over, spell it repeatedly for people who think they must have misheard, and envy the child who can say
'My name is Anne or Paul or whatever .

DogInATent · 17/09/2022 13:36

They sound like 1980s house names. James and Jennifer sell-up their Islington terrace and retire to Norfolk, proudly taking down the "No 69" sign of their new-build semi-detached bungalow in Swaffham and putting up the new house name, "Jeniams". They'll plant out the pampas grass the following weekend.

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 13:35

SudocremOnEverything · 17/09/2022 13:31

jenn-I-ams would be hilarious. but everyone would think she’d had an affair with William.

it’s going to have to be jenniames, pronounced Jenny-aymz. beautiful.

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You have such a way with names.

Such an awful awful way 😂

SudocremOnEverything · 17/09/2022 13:33

Erjam would be a lovely brother for Jeniames.

Ishacoco · 17/09/2022 13:32

I can't believe this is true.....I really, really can't. Jamifer????

SudocremOnEverything · 17/09/2022 13:32

OneCup · 17/09/2022 13:29

Well it wouldn't be fair on their second child to miss out on this. Purely on this basis, better they don't do it!

But there are SO MANY potential ways to hideously combine bits of their names. They can have many children with this as the plan.

SudocremOnEverything · 17/09/2022 13:31

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 13:28

@SudocremOnEverything are we pronouncing Jenniams as Jenny-ams or similar to popular entertainer Will.I.Am?

I hate it either way but am curious.

jenn-I-ams would be hilarious. but everyone would think she’d had an affair with William.

it’s going to have to be jenniames, pronounced Jenny-aymz. beautiful.

W00p · 17/09/2022 13:30

Jamifer 💀

OneCup · 17/09/2022 13:29

Well it wouldn't be fair on their second child to miss out on this. Purely on this basis, better they don't do it!

SudocremOnEverything · 17/09/2022 13:28

Ennifames?

jamennifer?

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 13:28

@SudocremOnEverything are we pronouncing Jenniams as Jenny-ams or similar to popular entertainer Will.I.Am?

I hate it either way but am curious.

Sarahcoggles · 17/09/2022 13:27

pennysays · 17/09/2022 12:48

Absolutely no good comes from intervening on other people’s baby name choices. Stay out of it!

Did you miss the bit where the OP said her sister had asked her opinion?

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