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Tamsin or Imogen

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HeinzSight · 31/07/2009 21:21

We need to decide v soon!! Or any other suggestions

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GwarchodwrPlant · 31/07/2009 21:23

Imogen.

Tamsin is a bit chav.

What sort of names do you like?

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MrsHappy · 31/07/2009 21:23

I like Imogen a lot but it is growing in popularity.

I'd probably go for Tamsin, because you don't get too many babies called Tamsin and it is very pretty.

LynetteScavo · 31/07/2009 21:24

Imogen

jkklpu · 31/07/2009 21:24

Tamsin's lovely and much less popular than Imogen

nigglewiggle · 31/07/2009 21:24

Much prefer Imogen. Not too popular here (West Yorks). It is a lovely name.

treacletart · 31/07/2009 21:25

I have a nearly 2 year old Imogen. Haven't come across another yet but I'm sure we will. We call her Mimi for short.

BikeRunSki · 31/07/2009 21:27

LOVE Imogen (Immy).
HATE Tamsin.

No rational at all.

BikeRunSki · 31/07/2009 21:27

Rationale, not rational.

blametheparents · 31/07/2009 21:29

Really love Imogen.
DH vetoed it for our DD

jkklpu · 31/07/2009 21:34

treacletart - I know a nearly 5-year-old Imogen nn-ed Mimi, too!

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HeinzSight · 31/07/2009 21:41

DH vetoed both Tamsin and Imogen last time, now he says I can have 'my' Tamsin or Imogen.

I know of one little girl called Imogen but no Tamsins.

We already have a Christian, James and Niamh

BUT, we don't know whether this LO is a boy or a girl!!

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fiplus4 · 31/07/2009 21:44

We've got a Tamsin, now 5 & not met another one. Good Cornish Saints' name - struggle to see what the chav connotations are! Imogen's are 10-a-penny in this part of the world (but I still think it's a pretty name, too)

GwarchodwrPlant · 31/07/2009 21:50

Didn't mean to offend anyone with the 'chav' connotations, it's only my opinion based on the fact that I know 2 of them and they are really really chavvy! So it's not a nice name to me.

Tortoise · 31/07/2009 21:54

I prefer Yazmin/Yasmin but i am bias cos i have one! Her NN is Mini.
I like Imogen as well.

skybright · 31/07/2009 21:59

Carys or Imogen were my top two girls names when i had DS.

So Imogen for me.

pointydog · 31/07/2009 22:11

Tamsin

BlueChampagne · 31/07/2009 22:33

Prefer Tamsin to Imogen. The one I know (from school in the 70s) is very classy.

Firawla · 01/08/2009 12:19

Both are really nice
I dont think Tamsin is chavvy at all!!
and its less common at the moment so i would say maybe go with that?

TwoHot · 01/08/2009 14:07

Imogen

noddyholder · 01/08/2009 14:10

definitely Imogen

Tillyscoutsmum · 01/08/2009 14:20

I like both but prefer Tamsin because its a bit less popular

ilovesprouts · 01/08/2009 14:25

dc3 was going to be imogen ,but he turned out to be a boy !!

ilovesprouts · 01/08/2009 14:27

also how can tasmin be chav!!

maggievirgo · 01/08/2009 15:11

I like tasmin, and Tamsin. Tamsin is prettier and easier to say I think. Also, it's less predictable right now than Imogen, so I like that. I don't know millions of Imogens, but I know of two under two. So I say, if you like Tamsin, go for it. How can it be chav? It's hardly Billy-Rae, Or Indiana-Merlot