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Thomasina?

98 replies

SupetArt · 14/05/2022 22:17

Can’t get this make out of my head despite originally settling on something else!

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nocoolnamesleft · 14/05/2022 22:20

Screams "I wanted a boy called Thomas".

Hugasauras · 14/05/2022 22:22

Yes, I'd assume a boy called Thomas had been expected/wanted. It feels a little like a joke name in this day and age tbh.

yikesanotherbooboo · 14/05/2022 22:22

I like it.

DisplayPurposesOnly · 14/05/2022 22:22

I really like it.

17caterpillars1mouse · 14/05/2022 22:24

I love it and disagree with the previous poster, i don't think it screams 'I wanted a boy' at all.

I see it as quite a sophisticated name with nice shortenings, it's well known but unusual and different in a good way.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 14/05/2022 22:24

I prefer Thomasin

Notgotanyidea · 14/05/2022 22:24

I like it and loves the film I think it’s called 3 Lives of Thomasina.

LubaLuca · 14/05/2022 22:29

I think it's a clumsy sounding name, like the other male names with a feminine bit tacked on.

Organictangerine · 14/05/2022 22:30

Sounds like a fairy cobbler under a toadstool

SallyWD · 14/05/2022 22:31

I don't like it at all (although I love Thomas for a boy).

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 14/05/2022 22:32

Isnt that the name of the brilliantly clever girl in Tom Stoppards Arcadia?

User3568975431146 · 14/05/2022 22:32

I've known several Thomasinas all in nursing homes and all the daughters of men called Thomas.

Gunpowder · 14/05/2022 22:32

Have loved this name since seeing Arcadia at the theatre years ago! Go for it!

Pemba · 14/05/2022 22:33

Tamsin is quite nice. Thomasina is a bit too obviously 'female form of Thomas' as pps have said. Bit like Wilhelmina, Roberta or Henrietta.

Strangely I don't feel that way about Georgina or Stephanie, maybe because they're more well known.

SausageMonkey2 · 14/05/2022 22:33

My MiL is called Ina. Her mother was Thomasina. Both aren’t / weren’t fond!

MarmiteCoriander · 14/05/2022 22:35

LubaLuca · 14/05/2022 22:29

I think it's a clumsy sounding name, like the other male names with a feminine bit tacked on.

This ^ I just don't like the sound it it because its a mouthful and sounds masculine to me. A 4 syllable 1st name is rather long and would often be shortened, but what would would be a nn for this? Tom, Tommy, Toma, Sina?

Sorry, but all are awful, but maybe I'm missing a lovely nn for Thomasina I'm just not aware of?

Pollywoddles · 14/05/2022 22:38

It’s the kind of name I’d associate with the girl having been named after someone male like Roberta, Josepha or Nigella. A tribute name if you like.

BrownStripePJ · 14/05/2022 22:42

I don't like it

Chickydoo · 14/05/2022 22:47

Love it! Beautiful name
Love Tomasin too!

MotherOfCrocodiles · 14/05/2022 22:50

Tangent, but Nigella is not just a form of Nigel , it's a lovely flower also known as - "love in a mist"

Kanaloa · 14/05/2022 22:50

It sounds a bit clunky to me. Where I grew up there were names like Jamesina, Donaldina, which I also disliked.

Diverseopinions · 14/05/2022 23:20

I like it. There is a Thomas Hardy character called Thomasin. I really like Tamsin, too.

Aria999 · 14/05/2022 23:21

Thomasina tittlemouse

LostInTheColonies · 14/05/2022 23:35

Very cool name. I know one of 16!

Came across elderly ladies in the Highlands called Hughina and Angusina some years ago. Not cool names 🤣🤣

MissMaple82 · 14/05/2022 23:46

Yack

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