Thomasina / variants

[pennybournes]

Thomasina, Thomasine, Thomeline, Thommeline, Tommeline, Tomasine, Tomasin, Tomine, Tomin

None of these? Are they all too weird?
What are your thoughts? Thanks!

You forgot Tamsin which is variation of Thomasina.

I like Thomasina the best, but not crazy keen on any besides Tamsin. I liked Thomeline just moments ago, didn't hear that till now, but I now think of tomato

Thomasina is the only one that sounds like a proper name to me, the others sound made up

Tamsin is much nicer though

Cross post @oldnorsesaga
Like minds!

Are you naming her after a Thomas but don't like Thomasina?

I love Thomasina. She’s the protagonist of Tom Stoppard’s ‘Arcadia’, one of my favourite plays. I think Nigella Lawton’s sister was called Thomasina.

I know a Thomasin, I really like it.

I'm not crazy on any of them tbh, though Tommie or Tammie are cute for a girl.

When I hear Thomasina I assume the parents were expecting a boy/would have preferred a boy.

Maisie ( thoMAS) is that too far stretched ?

Thomas also means ' twin'

So could google names meaning twin

I like Tammie or Tamsin, the others make me think of a tomato but it may be just me.

Tommeline makes me think of tambourine or trampoline or the Tombliboos.

Most of them sound made up.

Also not a fan of any of these, sorry.
Love Tamsin though.

Tammy
Tasmin
Tamsin

Tamsin is the obvious choice

Love Tamsin.
Not keen on any of the others.

When I hear Thomasina I assume that the parents would expecting a boy (Thomas) but the baby was a girl so she became Thomasina. Alternatively Dad wants to pass on his name so named the baby Thomasina. (The only Junior I know is Junior Andre)
I feel the same about the name Nigella too. I assumed Nigel became Nigella rather than other associations like nigella seeds.

I like Thomasina, but it will get shortened so need to decide now on your preferred pet name before someone else does it for you and you end up with her being called something you hate! Tamsin is nice as a pet (or even a full) name, as is PP suggestion of Maisie.

The most common shortening is probably Ina, but I have come across two Ina's one Thomasina the other Williamina.

There was also another Lawson sister called Horatia. Awful names, all of them.

Sorry I don’t like any of them .

I love Tamsin though - a great name and not overused.

Tommaline is the nicest one to me, as it's the one that sounds most distinct from Thomas and not just a compromise when someone really wanted to use the name Thomas.

None of these names are established enough as names in and of themselves for me to think anything other than "the parents wanted a Thomas (ie a boy) and when they didn't get one they decided to call her Thomas anyway" when I hear them.

The risk my child might feel their parents would have preferred them to be a different gender and don't care that they weren't when naming them would make me avoid the name.

If you heard Thomasine, would that make you assume a boy called Thomas was expected? Or does that sound a bit different?

How about Thora?

I was thinking, 'round, it sounds round' then realised I was thinking of tummy. Which could be unfortunate if she's not slim, could make her self conscious, or a way for kids to be mean.

I like Thomasina, I have a old lady cat called Thomasina! We shorten it to Thoma. I like Thomasine too.

I would assume you had hoped for a boy weirdly people first said that about our cat! They assumed we thought she was a boy and had to feminise the name, we just liked the name.