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I quite like Tamsin. Just Tamsin though, without the nickname Tammy.

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Tamsin Eleanor is my favorite combo.

Kind of fussy and prim, but I could see myself liking it more in the right context, ie: on a person I actually knew or in a combo where it really popped.

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Part of what my dull my potential enthusiasm is that I love Thomasa and Thomasin as feminized forms of Thomas; there's little room for Tamsin for me in that niche. Plus it loses the long O, which I like of that name family.

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Other downsides: the potential nickname Tammy (though nicknames aren't impossible or even difficult to avoid, I think) and the tragic connotation of Tamsen Donner and the story of the Donner-Reed party. Not everyone knows her by name, I'm sure, but the party's story is popular and incredibly grim.

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I can see it going along with other names that have a proper, straight-laced feel. Respectable and kind of Victorian. Like Constance, Agatha, Josephine, Edward, Theodore, or giving your kid the entire name of a historical figure a la Benjamin Franklin Surname or George Washington Surname.

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This message was edited 6/4/2010, 1:52 PM

It's pretty ugly sounding to me, personally. It seems like a name that could potentially become trendy.

I like it as a possible nickname for Thomasina. It is also my cousins middle name.

I love Tamsin. It sounds so smooth and elegant. Like many other posters, though, fear of it devolving into Tammy would keep me from ever using it.

I never liked it. It sounds so contrived.

I think Tamsin's quite attractive; however, I strongly prefer Thomasina.

I like Tamsin, honestly. But the possibility of being called Tammy... no... heaven forbid.

I love Tamsin. It's unique without being completely unheard of.

I love it! I was thinking about posting about it, but you beat me to it. It's offbeat and charming. I'd love to meet someone named Tamsin.

Thumbs up, it's cool. I wouldn't mind being named Tamsin, if I was going to be born today. "Please don't call me Tammy"

Ooh! I like it, in an *almost* guilty pleasure kind of way. It's almost unheard of where I'm from (except one of my friends had a cat named Tamsin, but he sometimes shortened it to Tas or Tin, which is really cool... well for a cat). If I met a Tamsin, I imagine she would be independent, artsy, hipster-cool.

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Tammy is ucky and 80s to me. And I don't like Thomasina. I think it calls for a romantic middle name to make it that cool punk-hopeless-romantic character that we see in the movies.

Tamsin is fine, but I don't like the potential nn Tammy at all. For this reason, I prefer Thomasine / Thomasina.