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I actually like it. It's pretty, and it's got a great association. I do like Thomasine better though. I find both of them to be very feminine, and I think they could both make a comeback.

I remember seeing this name as one of the characters in the book "The Return of the Native".

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I think I prefer Tamsin.

I love it and Thomasina.

I love Thomasin! It sounds so cheerful and grounded to me.

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I don't love Thomasine because I think of it as an adjective for Thomas.

There are multiple living Thomasins here according to the birth records, who were born after 1984. I like the sound of Thomasine better: there are a handful of those around, too. But Tamsin is vastly more popular, because it's shorter and neater and girlier, not having Thomas in it.
I think that Thomasin/e/a is probably only ever going to appeal to people who like unusual historical names, and/or want to name a daughter after a Thomas.

If anything it reminds me of Seraphin, Constantin, Augustine, Albertine, Josephine.

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I read it as feminine, but it looks awkward without an e. I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce it. Tamsin is better imo.

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But maybe Thomasin / Thomasine (Tom-ah-sin? Tah-mahs-een? "Moss"?) could be cool. I'd have to get used to it, but I like more than Thomasina.

This message was edited 7/2/2018, 3:06 PM

I like it. I prefer the simple - in to the flowery -ina and Thom to Yam. That said I think in an English speaking place it's too close to Thompson to work well. I don't think it would ever make a comeback.

it sounds a lot like a surname, which is the sole reasson i think it could work nowadays. but Thomasine is much better. i don't even solely mean because it looks/sounds more feminine, but because it sounds less stiff. Thomasin sounds too much like a business name or something.

I think its time is several hundred years past and it's unlikely to ever make anything resembling a comeback.
The sound of it actually sounds like a medicine. I don't know if others would think so, but if so, that could play a part in its not coming back.

I kind of like it, but I like Tamsin much more. I don't think Thomasin sounds too masculine and I wouldn't put it in the same category as Julian and Christian at all. I suppose this is only because Julian and Christian are established, not uncommon names for boys. I guess that's why Thomasin sounds feminine to me and they don't. In other words, if Julian and Christian were as unusual as Thomasin is, I might think they sound feminine.

Tamsin is a favourite name of mine, and Thomasina has an appeal, though I'd never use it myself. Thomasin sounds like it's in transition between the two, but it's lost all the factors that make the other names charming. It also sounds like something a sci-fi/fantasy author would name a character, because they want it to be familiar yet different.

Hi Perrine !!!

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Thomasin is too close to Thomas to ne judged feminine imo.

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Here in Italy there are many surnames that end in -in and they are often based of masculine names. Tommasin (after Tommaso or the 'extinct' Tommasino) is not out of place among surnames so Thomasin seem also a LN in my mind.

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In my opinion there is no sense to use Christian or Julian for Girls when we have Christina, Christine, Christiane, Juliana, Julienne or other forms.

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Obviously everyone can do what he/she wants and It is common in some countries nowadays to change the name gender. But I strongly dislike this trend.

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There are many way to use New names imo:
1 using dated/rare names
2 using word-names makes them Given names (i.e. Story, Paris, Blue, Nightingale, Juniper..) I user only few names Just to show you what I mean.
3 using nicknames as given names
4 using surnames as given names
5 using foreign form of names
6 using a different spelling of a name
7 change gender of an established name
8 create madeup names

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Personally I like to see the option 1 and 2.

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These ways help to save names that are desappearing but also with the 2 you can be creative with something that has its own history ad you are named after an animal, flower, adjective or town that in every case could have a positive value.

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WDYTO these options?

This message was edited 7/2/2018, 6:15 AM

I prefer Thomasina

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Especially with the nickname Tam. Also think Christian and Julian could make a comeback for girls more as a middle name though

Love Thomasin. It could also be shortened to Tamsin probably

I think of the main character of The Witch. I'm not really a fan of the sound - Thomasine is better but I think Tamsin is the best variant.