Not what we were expecting to name her!

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Our beautiful girl finally made an appearance at 4:23 this morning. After compiling a list of names for her, we realised she was a Jemima which wasn't on our list at all. She just looks like a Jemima to both of us and all other names were forgotten. Does this happen often, when a random not discussed name suddenly comes with baby out of nowhere or are we very weird?!

Why would you think this? Google is free.

LOVE that name 💕

We never chose names until the baby was here - waited to see what/who they looked like. Weirdly we had thought pretty firmly of a first name/middle name combination, when my brother visited and said 'he looks.like a 'middlename' so that was it!

What a lovely name! Congratulations!!

With my eldest I didn't find out the sex but I always said if it was a girl she would be called Tabitha. I was adamant, nothing else was considered. I loved the name and I still do but when I finally had my baby girl I was so confused because she just wasn't Tabitha! Eventually, after 10 days, she became Holly and it just suits her perfectly ☺️

Thanks everyone. I've suddenly got leaky eyes!

Congratulations!

Happened to me/us (well mainly me!)

Had DD2 and we had picked a name we were absolutely set on. As I lay awake looking at her I couldnt get a different name (never on our list) out of my head. When her dad came in the next day I said "I dont like sally, I want to call her hilary" and he looked at her and said that he agreed, she looked more like a hilary. And that was it!

Not the real names obvs!

Aww, I love Jemima! Congratulations!

We didn't have a name for DS1, because I was sure for no logical reason that I was having a girl, but I knew instantly that my favourite boys' name wasn't right for him. We picked his name later that day and it's perfect. My favourite name went on DS2, because it did suit him, and still does.

It's so funny how you just know.

Nah, Jemima is the dolly from Play School, But thats likely 2 generations away for this baby girls.

OP Beautiful choice, congratulations 🎊
The only Jemima I know is an older lady who goes by Mima. And she's a star woman too.

My one bit of advice take lots of photos. It all goes so fast.

Possibly outing but I know a Jemima too, and a Verity (which my mother was convinced was a made up name when her relative named her DD!), but then I have the single most common name in the fucking WORLD, so what does she know?!

Jemima is lovely - congratulations!!

Is there any reason why posters are so scared of sharing the names they chose for their children (15 years ago!) on here? All this Fred/ George / Hilary seems odd on an anonymous forum where people are sharing lovely baby names.....

What are you worried about?

Congratulations!

With one of my DCs, I had the first and middle name all settled, but realised the middle name was all wrong soon after delivery.

Yes, with second son. He was going to be called William Harry, but he didn’t look like William to us, so we reversed the names.

Congratulations on Jemima. Pretty name.

Congratulations 🎊

DS2 was absolutely not going to be called Joshua. Until he was born. The second I saw his face, I knew his name was Joshua.

It’s a brilliant name. I was nearly a Jemima back in 1980. Congratulations!

Our first baby was born unexpectedly really small. All the names on our list seemed too big for her (if that makes sense?!) so we called her Penny. It popped into my head and she couldn’t have been anything else.

Jemina is a gorgeous name, congratulations x

Yes, it happened to me. I wanted to call my dd Clio or Jemima (funnily enough). And when she was born, I realised that she was an Isabella.

Just remembered two things. Youngest DS was not going to be named Jack, most popular name for a few years at that point. Then he was born. Yep, he is a Jack!

My mother (who gave me the most common name in the UK for fucking years in the end) wanted to call me Heidi. I was primary school age when the sitcom Hi-de-Hi became massively popular in the UK, so glad she changed her mind! Its about the only thing to which I am grateful for having such a boring name!

With my first child, we couldn't agree and weren't 100% sure about the names on our list. When DS was born we knew the names on the list wouldn't work. I remember looking at my baby and in my mind seeing letters come together. They didn't all come at at once but it was like 'there's an 'm' but its not Michael' and then the name kind of appeared in my mind's eye and I could see it. Just the my brother came in to visit and asked the name. I said I didnt know. DB then suggested the name I had just 'seen'. I asked my husband what he thought and he just said 'yep!' and that was that! Suits him so much!

I love the name, always have, but I thought a child would be teased and called Aunt Jemima.

Aunt Jemima was the brand name of pancake mix and syrup up until the 2010s in the US. Probably why I've never known a Jemima in real life.

Congratulations on sweet Jemima!

Never heard of Aunt Jemima pancake mix before.
Jemima Puddleduck is sweet and so is the name Jemima. Perfect name for a beautiful baby girl. Congratulations OP and welcome to the world Jemima. ❤️

Well I think that's just you. It is definitely a name, just like Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny have proper names that are not just for rabbits..

Jemima is lovely. The two baby girls I know are Tabitha and Zola and I know a one year old called Roscoe.

Lovely name. I know a Jemima, she's fantastic- caring, independent and very clever. Currently at university of her choice after stellar A level results. Enjoy time with your newborn daughter OP.

Jemima is a Hebrew name, it's not made up (neither is Regina)

I love Jemima puddle duck! Great name.