Nicknames/short names that don't make sense

[Anonymous]

Please list nn, or short names, that you've come across that don't make any sense for the real name.

A recent "shortlist" thread that mentioned the nn Jo or Danny for Jordan made me realize how weird I think it is when people come up with these short names that don't make any sense. Jordan doesn't lend to either Jo or Danny in my opinion.

*I'm not meaning to pick on people who come up with cute little nicknames- I know a kid who goes by Sia, her brother just can't pronounce her name. Another kid goes by Chuck because of a cute family joke.

[Anonymous]

Dick and Richard

Jack and John

Peggy and Margaret

Chuck and Charles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A recent "shortlist" thread that mentioned the nn Jo or Danny for Jordan made me realize how weird I think it is when people come up with these short names that don't make any sense. Jordan doesn't lend to either Jo or Danny in my opinion.

I'm not sure I follow you with Danny. Jordan ends in jor-DAN which does lend itself to using Danny as a nickname. That's similar to Beth for Elizabeth, Fred for Winifred, Belle for Annabelle, and many others. It's common to use the first OR last syllable as a nickname for a multisyllabic name.

I agree that using Jo for a name that begins with Jor is a bit of a stretch, but not Danny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dick and Richard

Jack and John

Peggy and Margaret

Chuck and Charles

Betsy and Elizabeth

[Anonymous]

Missy for Melissa
Jack for John
Nancy for Ann
Mamie for Margaret

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Missy for Melissa
Jack for John
Nancy for Ann
Mamie for Margaret

Larry for Lawrence

[Anonymous]

Nellie for Helen

[Anonymous]

Hank for Henry
also Harry for Henry
Bob for Robert

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A recent "shortlist" thread that mentioned the nn Jo or Danny for Jordan made me realize how weird I think it is when people come up with these short names that don't make any sense. Jordan doesn't lend to either Jo or Danny in my opinion.

I'm not sure I follow you with Danny. Jordan ends in jor-DAN which does lend itself to using Danny as a nickname. That's similar to Beth for Elizabeth, Fred for Winifred, Belle for Annabelle, and many others. It's common to use the first OR last syllable as a nickname for a multisyllabic name.

I agree that using Jo for a name that begins with Jor is a bit of a stretch, but not Danny.

Though Jordan ends with d-a-n, it's usually not pronounced Jor-DAN and instead pronounced more like Jor-den. I'm not saying that no one stresses the DAN part of Jordan but it's rare for the end of Jordan to have the same sound as the name Dan.


Or is this possibly a regional thing? I'm from the west coast.

[Anonymous]

These new stretch nn are indeed annoying. I met a poppy, short for Penelope. I immediately wondered why they didn't go with Penny but I guess because of the OPE, poppy is ok. Though to me the end of Penelope sounds like uppy, so puppy would be more natural. ha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dick and Richard

Jack and John

Peggy and Margaret

Chuck and Charles

You don't understand the meaning of a nickname, do you?

[Anonymous]

I used to be annoyed by non-obvious nicknames, then I had a kid and named him Edward (family name). We call him Yeddy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These new stretch nn are indeed annoying. I met a poppy, short for Penelope. I immediately wondered why they didn't go with Penny but I guess because of the OPE, poppy is ok. Though to me the end of Penelope sounds like uppy, so puppy would be more natural. ha!

Ohhhh I think that's actually really cute! The rest of them... Not so
Much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to be annoyed by non-obvious nicknames, then I had a kid and named him Edward (family name). We call him Yeddy

Teddy

[Anonymous]

My very WASP-ish great aunt Elizabeth went by...Ting. Sounds cute, makes no sense.