Please give me your gut reaction too… Alima

[Picklemom]

Interested in anyone's first reaction to that name.

Sounds made up

It makes me think of food. I think alimentary means "to do with food".

It's not a name IMHO.

Made up.

Never heard it before= is it Indian?

I would prefer Alma

It's lovely. I haven't heard of Alima

What's that thing over there with a stripy tail? A lemur!

My first thought. ^

No. Stop making up names OP!

I know a lovely french woman called Alima. Very pretty I think

Nice but I prefer Alina.

Alma? Alamo - car rental? A Lima? Not great.

Arabic?

I know an Alima and she has an Arabic surname. I'm not overwhelmed with it as a name TBH. Makes me think of alimentary canal.

alimony was my first thought

I don't think it's made up. I know a 13 year old Alima whose parents are from Mauritius. She does get the lemur joke sometimes though

Ailment.

Do you mean Halima?

Nearly as bad as Daelyn.

It's Arabic, and I think it's beautiful.

Sounds like a prescription drug to my ears. Alina would be nicer (and somehow less medicinal!)

I know someone called Alima and she's beautiful! She's not Indian or Arabic, looks like Leona Lewis and went to a Catholic school. I think it sounds like a strong and confident name, but that could be because of the association with the person I know.

A Lemur.

My first reaction was to sing the lime and the coconut song sorry.

Soulds like a slimming pill.

(Now to check what other people think!)

A muslim religious scholar ... I'm reasonably certain that's what it actually means. Possibly not that great if she happens to turn out agnostic. Or simply not very academic.