Please tell my sister this is a horrible idea

[Siilka]

So, my sister told us last night her names ideas, and she was asking which we prefer. They decided that her husband and her would mix their names to create a new name.

So if it is a girl

Jamifer or Jeniams

A boy :

Jems
Jamer

We all told us it was horrible. But she insist on saying "stranger will find that cute". What do you think

Jem or Jems is a nice sobriquet if his name is Jeremy.

This thread has made me go and re-read Balonz and I cannot stop laughing.

Is she on crack?

Source please Sausage. That sounds glorious.

Shirley also did another highly irritating earworm-type song, called 'The Clapping Song':

I don't think she was being serious. She will be so delighted if she finds out you actually believed her. Maybe she is reading this thread 😉

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll this may be the first time we have ever disagreed. Both of those songs are brilliant! I had no idea bananafana was an actual song, I just thought it’s what all families did with a weird word! And the clapping song was my skipping song as a kid!

So Thankyou, again, first Leo Sayer backpack and now this. #blessed

My ex’s niece and her husband did this but in their case they ended up with Demi. Which is fine. Jamifer is not.

I am trying to do the name song with Jamifer and it’s not going very well I can tell you. Bananas or no.

Not cute.

Actually I think that only people with massive egos name their child after themselves.
From a practical point of view, once the child is older it will be really annoying to 2 Mr or Ms J Smiths., and will affect the privacy of the 2 with the same initial. I know because DH and DS1 have the same first initial, and not everyone will send letters using the requested middle initial to help differentiate. So if we get an NHS letter, for example, it's not immediately clear who it's for.

Good article- thanks for posting!

Jamifer 😂😂

I really hope they have a girl!

A friend did exactly this for her first child, and I found it reeeally hard to look enthusiastic about the name when she first told me.

We've actually lost contact over the years (for reasons completely unrelated to her choice of names...😄), but I'd heard she subsequently had three more children, so just did a quick internet stalk in anticipation of more craziness. They all have very traditional, Biblical names!

If you want to draw a moral from that for your sister, I'm guessing they realised fairly quickly that they hadn't done the eldest any favours...

Wow!

Truly terrible ideas.

Gobsmackingly godawful.

@YesitsBess Fair enough, no beef!!

They're both deliberately designed to be catchy - whether they catch you on the 'right' or 'wrong' side!

Like that Alexa 'Cake Rap' that annoys me intently, yet I keep listening to it on YouTube (don't actually have an Alexa) in order to be annoyed!!

Demi really isn't fine. It means a lesser/inferior version of something, not just smaller. The kid won't always be smaller anyway...

Let's hope the baby is non-binary.

Hilarious, but none of your business.

Thank god it's not Lucius and Jennifer having a baby

I just googled cake rap. Thanks. I hate it. 😀

Are you going to show her this thread?

She's the one who's going to have to try to wrap her tongue round that monstrosity of sounds though.

At least Siobhan (pronounced Shaw-bin) isn't on the list though. Don't tell your sister I said that, OP. Don't want to give her ideas.

I'm a stranger
I don't find it cute!
Just awful - there are so many lovely names; please tell them not to inflict that on their child

Hilarious, but none of your business.

I'm not sure I agree that isn't any business of close family members, albeit they don't get the final say, which belongs to the parents.

If they go ahead with this, the baby is going to go through life with a horrendous name that will cause confusion (in people trying to spell/pronounce/remember it) and likely a lot of ridicule. Even if it somehow doesn't cause confusion or bullying, it's still a very clear way or marking out a child's identity - with a name for their whole life - as being a product of their parents and not an entirely new individual.

Everybody you ever meet, however good-naturedly (or not), will greet you with "I think I can guess what your parents are called!" and likely want to expand on it at length, which will become tedious to the point of tears. If you've ever seen Family Fortunes, when Les Dennis hosted it, contestants with amusing or strange names (for some reason, I seem to remember there was one man called Dick Long) have to laugh along, as though they'd never heard all the obvious and irritating jokes or comments before in their lives.

It's still an unnecessary barrier in communications, where people with normal names will just be met with a cursory "Hi Sally, nice to meet you" and then get on with discussing the interesting stuff.