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[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

why did people EVER name their daughters fannie?

i work at qvc as an order entry rep and a few days ago this woman called from her mothers house, her mothers name being fannie. so i got her phone number to get into her membership, and her name was nacole.

nacole.
nicole, with an A.

i feel like only someone named fannie would name their daughter nicole with an A.

i think i'm going to start writing down the weird ass horrible names i see at work all the time and report back. y/n? could be slightly entertaining, at least.

Comments

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Nacole is definitly awful, but I'm still not sure if it's worse than NiCole. But Fannie...I think that 'why' is definitly the correct question.

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Fannie is short for Frances.

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

qvc goes by given names though, not nicknames.

[amspeck-myworld.livejournal.com]

Most popular nicknames become given names after enough usage (see Jack, Alex/Alexa, Molly...)

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

And Francesca.

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Francine.

(I come from a huge Italian family with a long line of "Aunt Fannies.")

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

People named their daughters Fannie, because obviously it didn't always mean what it means now. :P

Nacole is silly. I hate when people change the spelling of a name in a way that also changes the pronunciation...

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Even without being a reference to your butt, I think Fannie is still a name I'd never consider. It just sounds so... blah.

And Nacole is icky.

I don't know how I'd feel about you compiling a list of the strange names you encounter because it might just make me cry.

[moshimoshi-13.livejournal.com]

I know someone whose wife's name is Fanny. She calls her Fi. NEVER Fanny. Haha. Fanny's from Sweden though, so maybe it's alright there? But moving to England with a name like Fanny...I'm glad she gets called Fi instead.

[yourcrowbar.livejournal.com]

i knew a girl in high school named nacole. haha.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Fanny is a good name! Fanny Price, anyone?? And besides the fabulous Jane Austen nod, it can be a nickname for Frances, Francine, Francesca, etc. Not my favorite nn,I think Frannie is a tad bit better, but I adored Mansfield Park so much I'm willing to let it slide.
I'd name my daughter Fanny over Nacole any day of the week. ;)

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

I think Fanny Price's real first name was Frances, though. At least, it implied she was named after her mom or sb whose name was Frances.

And as for that name, I don't think it's any worse than a guy being called Dick instead of Richard.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

I could handle Fannie if I didn't know that Fanny is slang for vagina in places other than the US. I would never use it though because of the butt association that is here in the US.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Nacole just really makes me want to call her Nacho.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I did that with weird work names for a while, but I barely got any response, other than people giving me name meanings. It annoyed me probably more than it should have, because I didn't say I'd never heard the name before or that I was incapable of using a name site to find the meaning; I was just saying I found it unusual that someone was actually using it. So I stopped.

But! I vote yes. I'm always up for weird real-life names.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i feel like only someone named fannie would name their daughter nicole with an A.

haha. this made me laugh.