Jiminy Cricket...Jiminy Glick...Does the personal name Jiminy actually exist?

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

For that matter, I’ve always wondered where the name Jiminy Cricket came from. I always thought that Jiminy would be just awful, as a name to go through life with.

Does anyone know anything more about this name? I did check a couple of name databases but came up empty.

[labradorian]

Jiminy is an anglicization of Gemini, which is itself probably a corruption of the Latin “Jesu Domine” (Lord Jesus); all of which is a way of swearing on J_s_s Chr_st without actually swearing on H_m.

[SpoilerVirgin]

Jiminy Cricket, like Judas Priest, is a euphemism for Jesus* C**hrist*. The Disney character was named after the euphemism, and I’m sure Martin Short took the name because it sounded funnier to him than “Jimmy Glick”.

I don’t think “Jiminy” is used as a name in any other context.

[C_K_Dexter_Haven]

Well, there was Jumpin’ Jiminy…
… the famous kangeroo that was a Jesus look-alike.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

From The Wordwizard Clubhouse: Pronunciation of criminy

A similar euphemism is jiminy, as in Jiminy Criminy or Jiminy Cricket (which did not originate with Walt Disney), also meaning ‘Jesus Christ’. Scholars speculate that jiminy, which has been spelled gemony, geeminy, jimini and gemini, derived through Low German from gemini, which was a corruption of the Latin Jesu Domine ‘Jesus Lord’. This also goes back to the 17th century. Dryden in 1672 wrote “O Gemini! is it you, sir?” Byron played with the words in 1816: “Crimini, jimini! Did you ever hear such a nimminy pimminy Story as Leigh Hunt’s Rimini?” And we find the following in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876): “‘Oh, geeminy, it’s him,’ exclaimed both boys in a breath.”

Also our friendly poster Ukulele Ike should have some good information on the subject (can you guess why?)

[Irishman]

He’s a famous singing cricket?

[Chronos]

So “Gemini” in this sense is completely independent of “gemini” meaning “twins”?