Jacobina

[moiandkermee]

Yay or Nay?

What do you think?

Makes me think of Jacobean. Perhaps the baby could wear a ruff? (helpful).

Not for me I'm afraid...I love Jacob, but I'd save it in case you have a boy next time!

What a silly name.

Christ no!!!

Gut instinct if you really want it was

Snigger snigger. Hell no.

Terrible. Big thumbs down from the Belfast jury.

I think you have made that up.

No - sounds made up and like you really wanted a boy called Jacob (sorry if you did or you have family reasons).

Not made up; I know of one, called Judy for short.

Judy for short or Judy because her parents gave her a ridiculous name that she doesn't wish to go by?

Did you make it up?
Hideous

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No way, all I would think was that you wanted a boy.

Oh yes, I think she would agree it is unusable; I was just saying that the OP didn't make it up.

I have a Jacob but Jacobina is DREADFUL

Realise I have really messed up. Have twins and boy twin is called Jacob. Why oh why did I not think of Jacobina for girl twin???? Is it too late now they are four?

It was traditional at one time in the north of Scotland to put -ina on the end of a father's name for a daughter. It made for some wierdnesses that mane Jacobina look positively normal!

Not any different than Thomasina, Phillipa, Edwina, Christina. Why not?

It is traditionally Scottish, I think and very, very posh. If you own a large estate and do a lot of shooting, then yes. Otherwise absolutely not.

Well, I like it. Very Victorian Scottish. I think (could be wrong!) that several Victorian Jacobinas came from families with romantic notions of the Jacobites, bonny Prince Charlie, the Prince over the water, white roses etc etc.

I picture Jacobina with red hair, fair skin, and a dreamy, romantic air.

No, awful! As others have said, it will make people assume that you were desperate for a Jacob and foisted a feminised version on your daughter rather than giving her a decent name.

Some comments in here are a bit harsh! Go for it if you love it. Mumsnetters like names such as Eva, Sophia, Romilly and Katherine but we can't ALL be called those. Jacobina IMHO is lovely. Conjures up a spirited Scottish wildness to me. But really who cares what a bunch of strangers think? You'll be the one saying it 2000 times a day. She can always be Jay or Bobbie or something later on. I have a weird name and it's fab. I work in the art world and weird names are perfect here. I think names are such big issues with babies and young kids. No-one's yet given me an odd reaction as an adult.

I like it, and if she wanted to shorten it she could. What middle name and surname?

She could be (as well as Jacobina of course)
Jacs
Judy
Bina
Jackie
Cobi
Ina
Bean

I think some posters have been quite unkind

Fuck no, woman!!!!!

It is a hideous name, one so bad that the poor child will want to stab you in the eyeballs for giving it to them.

No way... Jacqueline perhaps..Jacobina..just sounds made up..'originally I wanted a boy'..'but I got a girl stylee'..not good...

Cobie Smulders (who is an actress on How I Met Your Mother) is named Jacoba.

I hated it at first, but I think there's something to it after all... :)