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Help[Opinions] Jamesina / Jamesin(e)
Thoughts? It would be a middle name, and honouring. Maybe as the first middle name for my all time favourite, Romilly.
Male equivalent would be St. James, St. having significance, too.
Much obliged!
Ottilie
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Male equivalent would be St. James, St. having significance, too.
Much obliged!
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http://www.babynames.com/namelist/9808453
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I don't think I like any (boysname)-sina names. They all sound like they're trying way too hard, and aren't fooling anyone. It's like... like putting a boy - one who really looks like a boy - into a very flouncy dress and trying to pass him off as a girl. Not fooling anyone, and the end effect is just weird.
Also, even if I liked it, I'd still think Romilly Jamesina is a whole mouthful of frills.
HOWEVER.
If it's the St. James connection you like, why not Romilly St. James? I love the sound of this. It seems seriously cool to me, and balances the frillyness of Romilly. As St. James is a lastname and you have (I assume?) a personal connection with it, I don't think anyone could fault you on using it as a middle name for a girl.
Though I admit... I'm really loving lastnames as middlenames just now. So maybe that's influencing my thoughts.
Also, even if I liked it, I'd still think Romilly Jamesina is a whole mouthful of frills.
HOWEVER.
If it's the St. James connection you like, why not Romilly St. James? I love the sound of this. It seems seriously cool to me, and balances the frillyness of Romilly. As St. James is a lastname and you have (I assume?) a personal connection with it, I don't think anyone could fault you on using it as a middle name for a girl.
Though I admit... I'm really loving lastnames as middlenames just now. So maybe that's influencing my thoughts.
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A mouthful of frills is hardly a negative, in my mind, haha. I don't have a personal connection to St James as a complete entity, it's more an amalgamation of two separate entities. In any case, I don't much care for it on a girl. I know Jamesina is just James with -ina stuck on the end, but it's at least feminine to me, whereas James is all boy and "saint" has a very snapping sound to it, which is masculine to my ear. Also, Romilly St James would just be two surnames stuck together, really.
Thanks!
Thanks!
This message was edited 5/11/2015, 12:46 PM
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Heh, fair enough. If a person likes frills, I can see the appeal of something like Romilly Jamseina.
Is Romilly a surname? I didn't know that... I still like it though. I'd never go for Romilly James, but Romilly St James is an entirely different thing for me :b
Is Romilly a surname? I didn't know that... I still like it though. I'd never go for Romilly James, but Romilly St James is an entirely different thing for me :b
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Is it? Oh, I never knew that. Sorry, that was very ignorant of me. I shouldn't have been so general. And sorry about the St. idea... I'm just a little unsure that St. as a name would really work.
Again I'm really sorry if I offended you.
Again I'm really sorry if I offended you.
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Jamesin looks like a failed attempt at Jameson. Jamesine is slightly better, but still not good.
Jamesina is tremendous! I think it'd be asking for incredulity as a fn, but in the middle and honouring, it's a winner all the way.
Jamesina is tremendous! I think it'd be asking for incredulity as a fn, but in the middle and honouring, it's a winner all the way.
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Ah, I see your point with Jamesin / Jameson! Thank you:)
This message was edited 5/11/2015, 11:49 AM
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I'm not a big fan, although if it's a middle name then it's fine. I do really like Jacobina or Jakobina with a short 'a' sound.
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I don't really find Jacobina works to honour in this case. Thank you, though!
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