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?!

Yes, and while we are on the subject Regina is a real name, and phalanges are the bones in your hands so that’s not made up either 😂

There’s some baffling comments in this thread.

Jemima and Regina are real names. Phalanges are bones in your hands.

Why would anyone anyone be teased about sharing a name with a duck, or a brand of pancake mix in a different country? 🥴

And isn’t it quite rude to come onto a thread where someone announces what they’ve named their child (already; not asking for feedback) and say why you wouldn’t use it?!

Anyway, congratulations OP! Soak it all in. Welcome to the world, Jemima!

The puddleduck. Very cute.

Congratulations! Not that late but we only decided on DDs name a few days before. If she’d been born on her due date she’d def have another name!
we’d picked up DS’s name when we first met and we stuck to our guns!

Yes dd1’s name wasn’t on our list we hadn’t even considered it. The name we chose just didn’t seem right at all so she didn’t have a name for a few days. We saw the name and I immediately thought that's the name.
Dd2 and Ds names we picked before they were born and the names suited them

I was quite convinced I was having a girl so hadn’t decided on any boys names at all. When in the delivery room, coming round from anaesthetic, I still thought baby was a girl so said, She’s called Amy. The midwife told my husband he was called Jamie and that was it, he was!

Congratulations!

Not exactly the same, but neither of my boys have my favourite boys name.

Congratulations and what a lovely name you’ve chosen

Congratulations! I love the name Jemima.
It is much nicer than Romilly and Tasmin.

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That’s my favourite girls’ name, and my DD’s middle name (she’s adopted, but we wanted to give her a name from us too).

Congratulations!!

Congratulations💐What a lovely name.

When my granddaughter was born, she was always going to be Jamie-Lee. When she was actually born my daughter called her another name altogether out of the blue, and totally suits her.

Yes, an off list name appeared and was agreed during the labour!

Yes, that happened with my first dc. The name we had agreed for him we eventually used on our 4th

Massive congratulations. Love the name Jemima,that would have been my sons name if he was a girl.💐

Jemima Potts from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang together with Truly Scrumptious

For me two perfect names .

Gorgeous name

Beautiful name. Congratulations on being Jemima’s mummy. I had an auntie Jemima who was always called Mima which I love, she was very special.

This is so lovely 🥰

Congratulations. I love the name, it was on my list but we had a boy.

Jemima is a gorgeous name-and the name of my first ragdoll!

This. We had lists of possible names but we didn’t decide for weeks after each one was born (and gave into family pressure in one and reverted to our original, changing the birth cert at 11m)

Congratulations!

Funnily enough my DD splashed in a puddle today and I said ‘hello miss puddle duck’ and suddenly thought how lovely a name Jemima is.

Congrats on your little girl OP!

Oh, to this… my DD is one of 27 born in 2020, and my DS has a fairly uncommon name in the 300s. I once Googled “(DD name) and (DS name)” and the only result was me posting on mumsnet to ask if they worked as a pair 😂

Had to ask MN to take the post down (which MNHQ kindly did) as it was so outing if you advance searched me…