Jimberly

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Originally going to be called Jim after my granddad, but we've found out we're having a girl. Would this work?

Laughing out loud!

It's a difficult adjective to live with as a name, unless you're a country and western singer or a one man band.

No.

Reminds me of 🎵 Kimberly, Mikado and Coconut Cream someone you know would love some Mum! Music 🎶
(Bolands Irish biscuits)

Nooooo it’s made me laugh out loud.

I had an aunt called Jamesina nn Nina, but she’d be about 90 now!

Yes, I think it's possibly dying out now, but in days of yore lots of elderly ladies were called Ina. I only learned fairly recently that in most cases that was a shortening from Jamesina and so on.

Interestingly, Ina was always pronounced “eye-na” in Scotland, yet the full names would be “eena” eg “James-eena”

There's real people out there...

Jimmy -Jams
Jimtastic
Jimboree
Lots of possibilities, OP 😉

See also: Mina. My Mum (91) has a friend of that name. I don't know if her full name is Williamina.

This website has a comment on this: Many boys’ names were transformed into girls’ names by adding ina, for example Thomasina, Georgina, Hughina, Jamesina, Williamina. These names might be abbreviated to Ina in later life. Williamina might become Mina. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/research-guides/forenames

If you've got two twins, both called Jim in honour of their lovely grandad, you could give them a joint mash-up name - like Jedward.

So Jim and Jim, mashed together, would make........ erm, Jim.

Jimberly Mae
Jimberly Rose
Jimbolina
Dzhim
Dzhimina

All, I'm pretty confident, unique.

Ymmij ?

Why not go international: Jim Jong Un

Jimothy, that's the one 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hahaha!

are you serious? No, absolutely not.

Jim is short for James. How about Jamesina? Or Jill?

I don’t like it and I rarely say that about names.

I usually like names that are unique but this just sounds a mash up of Kimberly and Jim, which just sounds wrong.

You can honour and appreciate your grandad without needing to call your child after him.

Any J name will suffice and it doesn’t need the word Jim in.

@Mumsnet HQ please add to classics

BenJIMina?

My auntie was called Thomasina (ina) for short.
It was after her father Thomas.

Jimberly? 🤔🤨
Personally I don't think it works.
Why not consider;
Jinny
Jina
Jemma
Jimi, Jimmi
Jimena
Jamesina
Jaime

Good luck!

There's a Scottish name, Jamesina, which is the female equivalent of James but I wouldn't.

Jimberley? What are you on?

Got to be Jimifred.