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[arnlaug.livejournal.com]

Hello all!  I am new here and thought I would make a post.  My son's name is Alexander Eric Eidson {he has 2 middle names- Eidson is not his last name} and we call him Lex....which in a way is humerous because he DOES have red curly hair... :~)  

My Great-grandmother's name was Effie and I am not sure where or what it is derrived from...does anyone know??

Thanks in advance for all your input!!

Lana

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[candyshowers.livejournal.com]

Effie seems like a shortening of a name.
I looked it up and the general consensus is that it is a shortening of "Euphemia," which is Greek in origin and means "well spoken."

[arnlaug.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that is interesting. I had always thought that it was shortened from 'something' but really didn't give it much more thought.

Thank you so much!

[bocce.livejournal.com]

omg i LOVE the name Effie (or Effy too)!! Have you ever seen Skins?

[arnlaug.livejournal.com]

I have always liked it lots myself...

No, I don't think I have...pardon my ignorance but what is 'Skins'??

[bocce.livejournal.com]

it's a British show, one of the characters is named Effie :)

btw, cute icon!

[imadinowhore.livejournal.com]

My name is Stephanie and some people call me Effy. So it's probably a shortened name of something.

Found this...

[dancingpiratess.livejournal.com]

Hi Lana,
Found this looks like it was Euphemia derived from Averick!

Old Gaelic name from Ise of Man. In Ireland it is Aifric, though now almost gone out of use; in Scotland Oihrig, where Effie and Euphemia came to be substituted for it. The river Affric, and its loch and glen of the same name, commemorate a nymph, according to Macbain. He and Prof. W. J. Watson explain the word as athbreac, " very dappled, or speckled." Foam-decked is the normal state of many Highland rivers, but feminine humanity in the North is more likely to be freckled.