Need advice on spelling of the name!

mikahla95 · July 2015

I can't decide if I like jemana or Jemina better any thoughts/advice?

jscasher · July 2015

I think Gemina would be a good way to spell it, it looks like Gemini which most people know how to pronounce.

Jaimee1017 · July 2015

Maybe jemana, jemarna, jemahna? I think you need to make it clear that Its an 'A' sound and not an 'I or E' sound ☺ Just so it's easier to pronounce.

Peony1982 · July 2015

I'm not sure how you would say this name that those two Options would sound the same.

CupcakesRamazing · July 2015

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Falchas · July 2015

I like that name. I've only seen it as Jemina, so that would be my preference. Jemana looks like someone tried to be too phonetic about it (does that makes sense?). Although looked it up out of curiousity (I do really like it) and saw that Jemana is an Indian name, traditionally male. Are you thinking boy or girl?

scw89 · July 2015

CarrieOct15 · July 2015

Spell it like this:

helsbels222 · July 2015

Is it pronounced the same way? The two spellings seem to change the pronunciation for me. By the way, I am also trying to think of 'J' names so you have given me some ideas. Thanks!

MoonUnitNugget · July 2015

scw89 said:

Love this.

ash413 · July 2015

mikahla95 said:
I can't decide if I like jemana or Jemina better any thoughts/advice?

I don't understand how these would be pronounced the same.

jscasher · July 2015

They seem like they would be pronounced completely different. That being said, I don't know I've ever heard of Jemana...

Can you confirm the pronunciation?

arichmon1 · July 2015

I work with someone named Jimena, but it's pronounce with the J as an H, it's Hispanic.

mikahla95 · July 2015

It's pronounced jem-ma-na if that helps the confused ones.

mikahla95 · July 2015

And no it's not like Jemima

mikahla95 · July 2015

Maybe I'll spell it like jemena, this is so hard

JamieA322 · July 2015

As a teacher, my advice is to spell it however is the most common.

Ceridwen77 · July 2015

mikahla95 said:
Maybe I'll spell it like jemena, this is so hard

That would be pronounced by most as je-men-uh (or "hey-men-uh").

Is that what you're going for? If not, don't spell it that way. Your child will constantly be correcting people on how to pronounce their name. It will be burdensome.

ash413 · July 2015

Ceridwen77 said:

mikahla95 said:
Maybe I'll spell it like jemena, this is so hard
That would be pronounced by most as je-men-uh (or "hey-men-uh").

Is that what you're going for? If not, don't spell it that way. Your child will constantly be correcting people on how to pronounce their name. It will be burdensome.

This exactly

dramaphile · July 2015

Jemina to me, looks like it would be pronounced Jeh-ME-Nuh, Jemena looks like Jeh-Meh-Nuh, and Jemana looks like Jeh-Mah-Nuh. If you want to avoid mispronounciation on a creative name, I would go with something that looks the way it sounds.