Cosima?

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What do you think of this name for a girl? I’m surprised to see how uncommon it is! Pronounced COS-im-uh. Thanks.

I like it but I thought it was pronounced
Coh-SEE-ma

I like it & know teenage Cosimas

I'd never heard of it until I met a baby Cosima a couple of years ago. I thought the parents had made it up to match their older child's name which also started Co. Until your post I've never heard of it other than that one baby. It sounds a bit "new age" to me... I think it's because it reminds me of Cosmic.

Love it so much. I thought cosSEEma too though.

It’s not a new age name. It’s a very old Italian name. I think it’s dated there, though, middle aged and frumpy. But it’s great to me.

There is a Cosima at one of the baby groups we go to. Pronounced COS-im-uh like you said. I quite like it.

Love it.

It’s COS i ma.

It’s Italian, not made up.

I think it’s dated there, though, middle aged and frumpy. But it’s great to me.

It’s true there are old ladies in the south called Cosima. Doesn’t mean it’s not due a revival, and it doesn’t have those connotations here.

Love it

So posh

It's a beautiful name.

I love it. DH vetoed, sadly. Only ever heard it with your pronounciation.

Actually yes, emphasis should be on first syllable, as you suggested.

I really like it, I know a toddler with the name, nicknamed Simmy.

I know it from Orphan Black, where she’s an awesome scientist called Co-SEE-ma.

It's very, very posh. I think there's one in the Bridget Jones books. One of her posh friends. So to me it sounds very "Come along, Arabella, Cosima and Horatio, it's time for Polo practice!" Is that what you were going for?

I've never met one. Only one I have heard of is Nigella's daughter, who was usually Mimi if IRC when she was on the tv programme as a child.

In Bridget Jones it's a man called Cosmo that you're thinking of

For me it's very very posh. I know a lot of posh Cosimas

Love it! Orphan Black!!

Would love to name any future daughter of mine Cosima but everyone knows I love the show, Cosima is a lesbian, I'm a lesbian, so I sometimes think that people would find it weird if I named my child it

Don't like it at all. I do however like your name Coco!?!

Is it really that posh? I wasn’t necessarily going for that, but it doesn’t really put me off. The varying pronunciations might, but I don’t think it’s too difficult to remember once corrected.

I kind of love it

I think it's pretty!

I've never met an English one so I've no idea if it's seen as posh. But then again, I don't know any posh people so maybe that's why I've never met one!

It's the name of a character in the semi-popular tv show orphan black, and is mispronounced on there as CoSEEmuh. I don't know if that could be the prevailing pronunciation among English speakers.

Pronounced COSimuh I like it a lot. I'd use it.