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Tamsin or Imogen

58 replies

HeinzSight · 31/07/2009 21:21

We need to decide v soon!! Or any other suggestions

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MrsMattie · 01/08/2009 20:37

Both nice, but despise the name 'Tammy', so would choose Imogen over Tamsin.

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HeinzSight · 01/08/2009 20:34

Someone is RL said if I called the baby Tamsin it would get shortened to Tammy, NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Still torn.

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ScummyMummy · 01/08/2009 17:04

Imogen is much better than Tamsin, imo. Agree with your friend that Tammy is a dreadful shortening, ginger.

itbird · 01/08/2009 16:58

I have an Imogen who is 13, she is called Ims, immy and imogen of course, not come across many only know of one other in the schools she has attended. Havent come across any Tamsin either so there you go. I am biased on Imogen of course and havent regretted calling her it although she was supposed to be a joshua with blonde hair and blue eyes and we got Imogen suntan (jaundice) masses of dark hair looked like she had been on holiday - that was a surprise lol

gingerbunny · 01/08/2009 16:50

my friend is tamsin and she hates it cos she got called tammy.
Imogen is lovely.

englishpatient · 01/08/2009 16:43

I don't like Imogen much, probably because I have only come across it as the pretentious friend of Katy in "What Katy Did"!

I like Tamzin (with a z), though again I have never met one, but she is in some books I love, pony stories by Monica Edwards.

Not so keen on Tamsin with the s.

LittleMissWorryHead · 01/08/2009 15:42

Imogen...Much nicer than Tamsin imo

franklymydear · 01/08/2009 15:15

I have always detested the name Tamsin - it sounds like Tasmin mispronounced and the only person I knew with that name was a vapid wannabe sloan which always colours names. I also think it isn't pretty because it doesn't naturally flow

Imogen is pretty

maggievirgo · 01/08/2009 15:11

I like tasmin, and Tamsin. Tamsin is prettier and easier to say I think. Also, it's less predictable right now than Imogen, so I like that. I don't know millions of Imogens, but I know of two under two. So I say, if you like Tamsin, go for it. How can it be chav? It's hardly Billy-Rae, Or Indiana-Merlot

ilovesprouts · 01/08/2009 14:27

also how can tasmin be chav!!

ilovesprouts · 01/08/2009 14:25

dc3 was going to be imogen ,but he turned out to be a boy !!

Tillyscoutsmum · 01/08/2009 14:20

I like both but prefer Tamsin because its a bit less popular

noddyholder · 01/08/2009 14:10

definitely Imogen

TwoHot · 01/08/2009 14:07

Imogen

Firawla · 01/08/2009 12:19

Both are really nice
I dont think Tamsin is chavvy at all!!
and its less common at the moment so i would say maybe go with that?

BlueChampagne · 31/07/2009 22:33

Prefer Tamsin to Imogen. The one I know (from school in the 70s) is very classy.

pointydog · 31/07/2009 22:11

Tamsin

skybright · 31/07/2009 21:59

Carys or Imogen were my top two girls names when i had DS.

So Imogen for me.

Tortoise · 31/07/2009 21:54

I prefer Yazmin/Yasmin but i am bias cos i have one! Her NN is Mini.
I like Imogen as well.

GwarchodwrPlant · 31/07/2009 21:50

Didn't mean to offend anyone with the 'chav' connotations, it's only my opinion based on the fact that I know 2 of them and they are really really chavvy! So it's not a nice name to me.

fiplus4 · 31/07/2009 21:44

We've got a Tamsin, now 5 & not met another one. Good Cornish Saints' name - struggle to see what the chav connotations are! Imogen's are 10-a-penny in this part of the world (but I still think it's a pretty name, too)

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HeinzSight · 31/07/2009 21:41

DH vetoed both Tamsin and Imogen last time, now he says I can have 'my' Tamsin or Imogen.

I know of one little girl called Imogen but no Tamsins.

We already have a Christian, James and Niamh

BUT, we don't know whether this LO is a boy or a girl!!

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jkklpu · 31/07/2009 21:34

treacletart - I know a nearly 5-year-old Imogen nn-ed Mimi, too!

blametheparents · 31/07/2009 21:29

Really love Imogen.
DH vetoed it for our DD

BikeRunSki · 31/07/2009 21:27

Rationale, not rational.