Thomasina?

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

I love Thomasin (am a Hardy fan) but not Thomasina.

I prefer Thomasine

It's Nigella Lawsons sister's name. As their father is Nigel Lawson who 'served' under Margaret Thatcher, it's a big no from me.

It sounds awful and like the person really wanted a Thomas so butchered the name to make it fit a girl. Just horrible

I think because they’re all more well known as female names. They’re not just a male name with ‘ina’ tacked into the end, they’re well known names with a long history of use for women.

The only Thomasina I ever knew was a cat who the family thought was male and originally named Thomas.

However, it is a name in its own right, it does sound a bit like you planned to have a boy and made a last minute adjustment but idea why, Josephine and Geraldine don't make me think that at all.
Maybe we are just not used to it? I say, if you like it, go for it!

Love it, biased cos it was my grandmas name. She was lovely too.
Also quite uncommon, not sure if that's a plus.

Lovely, also Thomasin is gorgeous

How would you say it?

the traditional pronunciation of the suffix “ina” is “eye-nah”, so you get “Thomas-eye-nah”, rather than “Toma-sea-nah”.

the traditional pronunciation gives the short form “Ina” (eye-nah)

I don't like it, personally, but it is a real girls' name with a long history, not just a twisted version of Thomas. Like Wilhemina and Josephina.

Fuck, no. Sorry!

I wanted to name our DD Thomasina/Thomasin but my DH wasn’t keen. We settled on Tamsin instead and it suits our little one perfectly.

Thomasine here, daughter of Thomas...
I've struggled with it tbh, hated it at school, Tommie in my 20's, Tommy in my 30's and 40's and now growing back into the full version in my 50's.

That said it's been exceedingly versatile so on balance it's a yes from me.

Love it

There's a Thomasin (with the A) in The Witch, played by Anya Taylor-Joy. Great movie!

I'm not a fan of Thomasina myself but I would have no problem accepting it as a name. I would probably assume she was named after a relative though. I can't really imagine many parents would pick "Thomasina" randomly out of a baby name book.

I've met a Kevina, which I actually really like! Admittedly, it does look strange when written down but it doesn't actually sound like Kevin when spoken aloud (KEH-vin Vs kuh-VEE-na).

I'm curious where this would be the traditional pronunciation of -Ina names? I'm from an Irish family and I've never heard e.g., Marina/Christina/Davina, pronounced like that. Asking because the name I'm planning for my own daughter ends in -Ina and I'm curious what pronunciations I might get!

Well, nobody on earth says “George-eye-nah”!

My grandmother was Thomasina, known as Nina.

I’ve recently had a girl and purposefully chose a name that there is no boy version of. I really didn’t want a feminised boy name, even though I have one myself and it’s hasn’t held me back. It wasn’t a set in stone criteria for me but I don’t believe girls need boy/gender neutral names in order to be strong, capable etc.

I knew a family where all the girls had names like this including Thomasina, Timothea, Phillippa etc.

I really want to hope that the woman's name was Caoimhína and that you are just angliciszing it to Kevina because that is how you expect it to be spelt in an anglicised form from what you heard.🙏

As for Thomasina...it feels odd to my mouth. The syllables seem to clash. Also, all I can think of is that god awful film about the dead cat Thomasina from the 60s.

I think if you use this name you have to resign yourself to people shortening it and using terms of endearment rather than calling the kid by their full name. So are you prepared to have different people calling your daughter 'Tina,' 'Tommy,' 'Massy,' 'Tomsin,' 'T,' 'Tom,' 'Tamsin,' etc?

No. She was Irish, but it was definitely spelled Kevina. She was a B&B hostess and sent me emails.

Sorry that was to @UrslaB , who said
I really want to hope that the woman's name was Caoimhína and that you are just angliciszing it to Kevina because that is how you expect it to be spelt in an anglicised form from what you heard.🙏

@UrslaB nope, definitely both Kevina. Of course it's possible, lots of babes get anglicised, it's not a leap.

I've just done a quick search in fb on that spelling and there's blinking hundreds of them.

*names, not babes, lol

Much nicer imo!