Comments for JEMIMA:

This is the name of a character in the musical Cats.

-- Anonymous User  6/29/2005

Sarah Brightman (and in the video, Veerle Casteleyn) played the role of Jemima in Cats. This is a pretty name, but I don't like the pronunciation "je- MIE-ma"; it sounds too much like Aunt Jemima. I pronounce it "je-MEE-ma".

-- gaelruadh19  8/5/2005

A character from Beatrix Potter is Jemima Puddle-duck.

-- Anonymous User  8/11/2005

I think Jemima sounds lovely, but unfortunately it is occasionally used as a racial slur towards African-Americans. This is reason enough for me to put it on my "if only" list.

-- Anonymous User  11/29/2005

Aunt Jemima's maple syrup.

-- Erica30588  12/10/2005

Jemima was a character in the novel "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray.

-- Melusine  5/2/2006

There is Jeremy and Gimima in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! HONK HONK - that was lame.

-- Anonymous User  5/2/2006

In Britain, Jemima is viewed as an upper class name.

Famous bearers are Jemima Khan (nee Goldsmith) and Jemima French (FrostFrench fashion).

-- Anonymous User  5/12/2006

The only pronunciation of this name I have ever heard is je-MIME-a which I think is really pretty but also quite posh.

-- Anonymous User  8/10/2006

I think it's a name that should be used only for cats. Doesn't it sound good as a name for a cat?

-- Anonymous User  9/3/2006

British actress Jemima Rooper bears the name.

-- Maggie_Simpson  10/2/2006

I think the first thing people think of is Aunt Jemima.

-- LimeGreen  12/14/2006

I just adore this name - it's perfect.

-- Surreal  12/27/2006

I like this name, but Aunt Jemima kind of ruins it for me.

-- Anonymous User  4/1/2007

Jemima is a doll on the popular Australian toddler television show "Play School". She has friends Big Ted and Little Ted (among others).

-- Anonymous User  6/3/2007

Daniel Boone's daughter was named Jemima. Her capture by and rescue from Native Americans was the historical basis for James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans". In the Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry, Pitt's daugter is named Jemima.

-- tyro49  7/8/2007

I'm astounded nobody's mentioned Jemima Puddleduck, from the Beatrix Potter books.

-- Bellula  7/27/2007

The daughter in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is named Jemima.

-- RedGyl  8/26/2007

I think this is a lovely name. I think of the girl in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when I read this name, all sweet and innocent and charmingly British. And I really like the meaning, "dove," too.

-- RedGyl  8/26/2007

One too many m's. Feels like you're stuttering.

-- Anonymous User  11/29/2007

Despite being Biblical, this name is actually quite nice. I think the name Jemina, however, is a prettier version of this name, and it's actually a Finnish name (pronounced YE-mina), although not a very common one. The only Jemina I've heard of is the lead singer Jemina Pearl from the crappy teen band Be Your Own Pet, unfortunately enough. You could use that one if this one sounds too much like the Aunt Jemima character, which I, as a Finn born in the mid-80s, am unfamiliar with.

-- slight night shiver  4/24/2008

Aside from the Aunt Jemima syrup there is Jemima Brown from The Eiger Sanction.

-- yohevid  8/2/2008

Pronounced "Ye-mee-ma".

-- Emilie007  8/8/2008

This name is hilariously horrible- it's so bad, it made me laugh out loud!

-- Anonymous User  8/27/2008

No. Just - no! It's a cute name, granted, but in the real world little Jemima will probably be teased mercilessly for having such a goofy, upper-class, old-fashioned name. Do you really want to lumber your child with the nickname "Jemima Puddleduck" for life?!

-- Sophannagh  10/3/2008

I know four girls (born late 80s/early 90s) named Jemima and they all go almost exclusively by the nickname Jem. Younger children tend to say Mima or Mimey. I really like this name.

-- Mondays Child  12/15/2008

The name Jemima reminds me of the puddleduck from Beatrix Potter's children's stories. I think it's an old-fashioned, but sweet, name.

-- walesgal92  2/17/2009

This name is quite beautiful. I love the meaning, and it's not overused. However, I don't like the association with Aunt Jemima, which has pretty much ruined this gorgeous name in America.

-- bananarama  9/5/2009

Jemima Khan [born 1974] is an English socialite, daughter of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and James Stewart.

-- vomiting  9/10/2009

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