Jemima

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Really hoping she isn't on here.. a good friend is expecting a girl in a few weeks and is already calling her Jemima. Everytime she says it, I have to stop myself saying "Puddleduck". Whats your opinion? Her other choice was Amelie which I much prefer.

I absolutely adore Jemima and it's on my list of girls names. I think the puddleduck association makes it cute!

I really don;t like Jemima at all (sorry).

Amelie on the other hand is lovely.

Both names are seriously bunting cupcake and as such probably a poor choice...

It's a 'try hard name'.

I like Jemima - can always be Jem as a nickname which is cute and funky. Prefer Jemima to Amelie which is really common and abit wet (and very French so seems abit odd if you don't have a French link).

Love it, love it, love it - fab name, much better than Amelie imo. Dd3 might have been Jemima but when she was born the name didn't suit her and I had to come up with something else.

Well yes Puddleduck (and a doll on Playschool? or am I so old I'm losing it?), but agree it's nicer than Amelie and agree Kerala that Jem is a good nn.

Jemima is frightfully jolly-hockey-sticks.

I teach at a university and this name is the template for the sloaney girls who are 17 but dress 45. My first day of teaching, a huge, braying girl in an Hermes scarf and Barbour wax jacket entered the room and bellowed 'Ahoy! I'm Jemima, yah!'

Still, it's better than Amelie.

My fiend has a Jemima and is definately trying too hard (I think inspired by Jemima Kahn). And in our house she is known as 'Puddleduck'
Sorry...

I like the name as a whole. Really dislike the potential nick names; Jem, Mima, Mimi

Think it is a lovely name and actually know someone who has two girls. Amelie and Jemima - everyone that meets them comments on the beautiful names.

I like it, and also Amelie.

I think the fact that you have to "stop yourself" saying Puddleduck says more about you, tbh.

LOVE JEMIMA
( shouting smiley)

Jemima is lovely, imo.

I can only see the rag doll from Playschool.

Vivia

Not my cup of tea really, sorry,

Jemima is the nickname all the girls in my family get called when we are dawdling and need to get moving... Come on Jemima.

I habe know idea why.

I think it's lovely but ridiculed too often

I love it and it is on our list of girls names for baby due next month. DH not totally convinced though.

I know a grown up Jemima and have never made the puddleduck association. Once your friends baby is here you will probably associate the name with the baby rather than the rather unfortunate fictional character.

I like Jemima. Don't think many of her peers will get the Puddleduck connection tbh.
How many Peters do you know I bet they don't all get called rabbit.

cute!

I wanted to call my Dd Jemima but we couldn't as she's adopted and it didn't sound anything like her birth name. It's now her middle name and she, and I love it... she is a puddleduck though!

I like Jemima, and there was one in my postnatal group. I actually think of the little girl in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang before I think of the duck.

Love Amelie its really beautiful... Think jemima is awful (sorry) i jus finished a sophie kinsella book wit an insane horrible character n it called jemima, but even without dat on da tip of my mind dont like it... Sorry...

Maybe she will have a Hamble, Humpty, Big Ted and Little Ted too!