Thomasina?

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

I really don't like it, sorry.

Don't do it. I know someone who was called this. They changed their name.

I actually like it! But can't see a good shortening? It would need one at that length wouldn't it? Josephine is a nice name (I think anyway) with perhaps a similar feel but has good shortenings with Jo and Josie.

"I wanted a boy and I got a girl. I'll just tweak the name"

Like Nigella

Traditionally, it’s shortened to Tamsin.

Nope. I just liked the name.

I think it’s the most gorgeous name - very refined. It would be TOP of my list.

Also if you’ve ever read Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia - one of the main characters is called Thomasina and is a brilliant name sake for a girl.

I like it, but regardless of that it does not imply boy was wanted - no more than Georgina, Harriet or Louisa are joke names or scream that a George/Henry/Louis was what was really wanted

I absolutely agree @MrsPelligrinoPetrichor !

It's actually ok, with nothing negative about the sounds. Tommy will be a sweet shortening, but it will be good to have a serious version for formal occasions. Thomasina is so good because of the rhythm - actually musical; the short sharp but pleasant 'Thom' stops it being all flowery and round, soft sounds. It's quite easy to say, tripping of the tongue: not like ' Antoinetta' for example, or 'Araminta' or 'Luciana'. You could actually say 'Thomsina' quickly and the name would sound the same.

I know a girl called Thomasin and she's lovely

It's just so twee.

I think it’s the opposite of twee - it’s a rather grand, grown-up name with history behind it.

Very pretty.

It was quite a common thing to do in some part of Scotland years ago - Thomasina, Jamesina, Murdina, Alexina, that kind of thing, and then shortened to Ina.

I really like it, reminds me of the film.

I wouldn't use it myself but I like it. It doesn't scream "I wanted a boy" or "boy's name" to me. It seems posh to me in a way that Thomas doesn't but maybe that's just because the people I've come across with it were.

Tammi Terrell's real name was Thomasina. She was so pretty 😍

I find it quite clunky and ugly.

I knew a Geoffrina. Interestingly, my brother went through a phase in his late teens of randomly calling people Geoffrey, to his great hilarity. After months off this, we were having a family dinner and I made a passing reference to a woman at work, to which he responded 'what, Geoffrina?' thinking he was being particularly amusing as, obviously, that's not a thing. I said 'actually yes, Geoffrina, weirdly that is her name', and there was just a stunned silence. He still occasionally double checks I wasn't winding him up some 20 years later.

I read an interview with Nigella Lawson once, where she said that her grandmother cultivated Nigella plants, and they were her favourite flowers. She (grandma) has wanted a daughter so she could call her Nigella, but ended up with boys, hence Nigel; when he had daughters, that’s where Nigella came from.

I thought this was a rather sweet story until I realised that Nigella has 2 sisters called “male name-a”.

Nigella and her sisters were given awful names.

Thomasina is a lovely name.