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?

Girls are called James too. Most commonly in the US but increasingly in the U.K. Do you have any data to back that op, @MyLovelyPurse ?
And the source.

I guess everything is made up at some point.

But is it a nice name?

It makes me think of the Jumblies: “their heads were green and their hands were blue and they went to sea in a sieve …”

@LikeTalkingToLassie see my previous post for evidence, or Google it.

@MyLovelyPurse "Of the 304,706 baby girls in the 2021 dataset, 46 were excluded because they were born to non-residents of England and Wales.
...
"Names with a count of 2 or less have been redacted using S40 of the Freedom of Information Act in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals."

No of baby girls registered as James in 2021 = 0.

Source: ONS.

Your previous post isn't 'evidence'.
Did you get your 'evidence' from a site like Nameberry?

No that’s not how names and etymology works.

Lots of modern names are invented though - meaningless with no root in etymology, place, trade, attribute etc.

Etymology is nothing more tangible than the history of words. Jimberley would be derived from Jim, in itself a derivation of James. And so on, backwards and sideways. My point was rather than pinpointing when it first emerged is less pertinent than whether it sounds nice.

History of the meaning of words.

Jimberly isn’t derived from Jim any more than it’s random variant of Kimberly.

The name Kimberly has roots in the language history - derived from cynberg - Kim/cyn - noble, berg/burg - fortress, or ber - bright, leigh - wood/field.

Jim = dim of James which is the latinisation of Hebrew Jacob meaning to follow, to supplant, to protect etc.

Jimberly doesn’t mean anything at all as it’s a random mashup of names from 2 completely different cultures/languages/etymology.

In short: Kim is a genuine variant of Kimberly, Jim is a genuine variant of James, Jimberly isn’t a genuine variant of anything.

Lots of “actual” names are a mash-up though: Anneliese.

Anna-Liese follows the tradition of compound names - Anne/a-Marie, Mary-Anne, it’s just Anna + Liese which is a variant of Elisabeth/Elise which are both Hebrew originally.

The earnestness of this conversation…

Jimberly isn’t a genuine variant of anything.

Neither is this thread.

I tend to agree! At least I hope it isn’t because we’ve all been very rude if it is!

Nah. 😆 No-one has been 'rude!' People have been having a laugh that's all!

I’m still feeling guilty for Jim-Panzee!

I’d agree but it turns out there are a handful of the people in the world called Jimberly…

True - before long, there will be more MN cats called Jimberly than there are called Fierce Barry.

😆

This is fantastically original.

Please call your child Jimberly. We need more Jimberlies in this world.

I have just called a plant Jimberly.

Made up names (all from novels or plays): Wendy, Lorna, Arwen, Cora, Fiona, Miranda, Norma, Olivia, Pamela, Stella, Thelma, Una, Vanessa.

Something tells me Jimberley won't be as popular.

Yesterday I made myself a Ginberly & tonic

Arwen isn't a made up name, it's Welsh.

Wendy is also a variation of Gwendolyn.
Fiona is Gaelic / Scottish
Una is an Irish name.
Lorna is a variation or Lorne a place and a type of sausage!

@FearYeTheDeadlyBisonAndItsToxicYogurt , Arwen is from Lord of the Rings.

It wasn't a name before that.

Wendy is from Peter Pan by JM Barrie.
Fiona is from the poems of Ossian by James Macpherson.
Una is from The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser.
Lorna is from Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore.

Don't believe the fake etymology you see on baby name websites.

Don't know about the others but Úna predates Spenser.