Which girl's name? Ramona, Jemima or Greta?

[meow]

I saw mention of it not being popular because of the pancake brand on a name website and I asked my close friend who lives here. She told me about the racist connections and she remembers it being as a racial slur quite a bit in the 80s. Checked on US name forum and wikipedia and yes, there is quite a strong link to it being used to describe someone as a slave who panders to white people and it being used as a racist slur. *sigh*

I can't stop thinking of cute Jemima Puddle Duck! And the lovely little Jemima on Playschool.

[Lily Dust]

I think of Jemima Puddleduck too I'm not in the US but hadn't heard of the Aunt Jemima thing until I started looking on EBay for 'Jemima' things. Honestly, every name comes with something that someone will find! I remember someone saying oh Jemima sounds like Jermaine and I'd name a boy that

[meow]

How well known is the aunty jemima thing? Have you got more than one person's perspective on it in America? Or it could be just their opinion iykwim?

No it's a big deal. the Aunt Jemima brand is massive and everyone knows it and everyone has a very negative response to it as an offensive name. I asked my friend to give an actual example of how it is used and she remembers it more as a school yard slur used against larger girls with dark skin. So there was a racist connection there in that white girls were never called Aunt Jemima but it also seems a bit school yard petty to me. I need to question the forums more I think for a very broad overview that I can't get from asking just people around me.

One of my closest friends growing up was jemima, don't let it worry you that we called her jemima vagina often, it was said with love

Well that doesn't really help the case for Jemima

Throwing Henrietta into the mix now...