Name Jemima

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Hi all,
What is your opinion on the baby name Jemima Beatrice. Beatrice is a family name so will be the middle name. Thank you😊

Admittedly I think of Jemima Puddleduck by Beatrix Potter. But it's a nice thought iykwim.

Good choice as long as you don't mind Jemima eventually being shortened to Jem or Mima.

I absolutely love both your choices. Really beautiful names.

Love them both

I know a jemima and it's shortened to MiMi

I’m not a huge fan of Jemima; I just think the sound is unpleasant. If you travel to the USA a lot, Jemima is a racially charged name there - but obviously won’t have any impact if not.

Every Australian she meets will make Play School jokes. Nothing awful but Jemima is always a rag doll to me.

I like it but it sounds very posh to me. I'd imagine a Jemima to go to private school and have a pony.

Both lovely names, but together does sound like you're a massive Beatrix Potter fan

Beatrice is lovely.

Jemima is a horrible, whingey name.

Great name for a duck. Not so much for a person

I don’t personally like it at all.

I work with a Jemima, we all call her Jem.

I like it, and the only Jemima I've known IRL was a lovely little girl who I taught so I have positive connotations.

Love Jemima, and I think Jemima Puddleduck has a really nice name 🤷‍♀️

Do you realise that Beatrix Potter animals tend to have human names, not vice versa? 😂 see Peter Rabbit and Jeremy Fisher for a start. Who knows what Mrs Tiggywinkle’s first name is, probably Dorothy or something.

Jemima is awful sorry

Love Beatrice as a middle name though

Love the name, it was on my shortlist

Lovely

@TrippTover yeah that's not something that really needs explaining but thanks 😂 it's a very famous puddle duck and that's what I associate it with, also known several ducks called Jemima because it's a popular name for ducks. For people I don't like it. Make sense?

I prefer Beatrice as a name so personally would have it the other way round.

I like it

I don’t know anyone called Jemima, so it does have the duck association to me - but that would soon change if I met a little girl called Jemima. It’s a good name with nice nn options. It’s a shame about the US racial connotations though.

I like both. Not a name I would choose myself, though but nothing wrong with them

Beautiful!