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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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YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 12:59

Jamifer has absolutely ended me.

I’m picturing a tiny Lucifer brandishing a pot of strawberry conserve in a menacing fashion.

Ooh interesting, are you pronouncing it Jam-i-fer? I was going for Jaym-i-fer (as in James)...

I think I like Jam-i-fer more now I'm picturing jam-making devils?!

Emrthecorgi · 17/09/2022 13:05

Dreadful idea

NiteCat · 17/09/2022 13:03

If it's Jennifer and James, why not use the name Jess for either as it contains a bit of both.

diddl · 17/09/2022 13:02

Ethelfromnumber73 · 17/09/2022 12:58

Sister or OP? Hmm

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Siilka · 17/09/2022 13:01

Nobody asked about her baby's name. She just told us last night herself, she seemed so excited and happy. We just said congratulations. She is serious.

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averageavocado · 17/09/2022 13:01

I think your sister is not old enough to have a baby, and should stick with www.sylvanianfamilies.com/en-uk/

MrsTerryPratchett · 17/09/2022 13:01

Naming a child like tweens name 'ships'.

Priceless.

nachoavocado · 17/09/2022 13:00

Is she pregnant? If not was she pissed?

They sound bloody terrible

IncompleteSenten · 17/09/2022 13:00

Either she's winding you up or you're winding us up.

In case it's neither - nobody will find those names cute.

They'll think they are stupid.

Cos they are.

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 12:59

Jamifer has absolutely ended me.

I’m picturing a tiny Lucifer brandishing a pot of strawberry conserve in a menacing fashion.

Dilbertian · 17/09/2022 12:58

She's got to be pulling your leg!

We didn't even tell anybody our shortlist. If people need we would say ridiculously implausible things like that.

Ethelfromnumber73 · 17/09/2022 12:58

France98 · 17/09/2022 12:57

She's at the wind up

Sister or OP? Hmm

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 12:58

Also, what if they have a second child of the same sex? Way to give them a huge complex when Mum is Jennifer, Dad is James, Sister is Jamifer and they're Linda.

France98 · 17/09/2022 12:57

She's at the wind up

caitlinrose · 17/09/2022 12:56

It's her decision in the end and there is not much you can do. I have seen worse, to be honest.

Maybe suggest combining them in a nicer way.

They are James and Jennifer I would guess so:

Janis
Janice
Jemima
Janina
Jeannine, Janine
Jamesina
Gemma
Jenna
Jennica

Jannis (this is pronounced yuhn-nis, other spellings could be Yannis, it's a legit name and used in many cultures)

These may not be perfect combinations but they sound enough like both names.

donttellmehesalive · 17/09/2022 12:56

Jamifer! Oh please do it. I hope it's normalised and a jamifer appears on my register soon!

AlwaysMunching · 17/09/2022 12:55

She's just fed up of folk asking her about names so she's winding you up

Twinstudy · 17/09/2022 12:55

Ha ha just makes me think of casa bevron from brookside back in the day. At least they only inflicted that on a house 😁

Arenanewbie · 17/09/2022 12:55

I would seriously think that she mispronounced them after introduction. Or that it’s a horse name, for some reason they all sound a bit like horses’ names to me.

Wouldntrecommend · 17/09/2022 12:55

Uhoho for the children of

Penelope and Isaac

Wanda and Kerry

Mo and Ford

EndTheMonacyNow · 17/09/2022 12:55

It's too silly to be true. Your sister is having a laugh at your expense

RedToothBrush · 17/09/2022 12:54

Your sister is on a wind up and you have be asking her about names too much...

ArmWrestlingWithChasNDave · 17/09/2022 12:54

Tell her to get a Tamagotchi and give it all the ridiculous names she likes, but to grow up when it comes to her real baby.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 12:54

Horrific.

It doesn't matter if strangers will find it 'cute' they won't, even if they outwardly make the 'right' murmurs - it matters about how she will go through her own life.

How do so many parents not grasp that they are naming a person who is currently a baby, but who will hopefully live for 80 or more years, the vast majority of them not as a baby?

Lullabies2Paralyze · 17/09/2022 12:54

Jamifer…..people will just call her jennifer regardless that it’s not her name

the boys name sound fairly normal like they might be short nicknames for a proper longer name. But still not names I would pick or hope any of my friends or family would pick.