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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love Susan, Irene, Mary, Sally, Penny, Beatrice/Bea. [/quote]
Sally and Penny are nicknames.

I know kids named: Nancy, Jessica, Mary, Alice, Ellen and Susana/Susy.  Name your kid what you want!  I never thought anything but “wow, that’s unusual for a kid these days” but that’s it. They’re all perfectly good names, they just don’t happen to be trendy right now.
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They can be nicknames but they are not always. I know a Sally who is just Sally and a Penny who is just Penny!

Nancy was historically a nickname for Anne. But hardly anyone thinks of it as a nickname anymore. [/quote]

Plenty of names that were once nicknames for very traditional Catholic or Christian names have become stand alone names. Molly was a nickname for Mary, but now I only ever hear it as a standalone. Same with Sally. And for boys, Jack was once a nickname for John and is not an extremely popular name all by itself.

I think Maggie and some of the other Margaret nicknames are heading this direction as well. I love the name Maggie and wanted to give it to my DD five years ago but everyone gave me such a terrible time bout it being a nickname and having to call her Margaret (which I like fine but did not want to use as a name). So we went with something else. But then last year a friend of mine named her DD Maggie (not Margaret) and I love it! Glad to see it getting more acceptable.[/quote]

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