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Nick Names; This or That

Mostly just a compiled list of names with possible nicknames, but I thought it would be fun for you guys to choose your favourites =] In Australia, we can pretty much make a nickname out of anything!

Note: some of these may be a tad far fetched, lol.


Girls

Adelaide; Addie or Adele or Lady
Amelia; Amy or Mellie or Mila or Melia or Lia
Charlotte; Chuck or Charlie or Lottie
Clementine; Cleo or Emmy or Mintie or Tiny
Dorothy; Dora or Dottie or Dixie or Dollie or Thea
Eleanor; Ellie or Nellie or Norah
Elizabeth; Betty or Betsy or Bessie or Beth or Effy or Ellie or Elsie or Eliza or Etta or Libby or Lizzie or Zibby
Emily; Emmie or Millie or Mila or Mollie
Helen(a); Ella or Ellie or Lena or Leni
Imogen; Immy or Genna or Mimi or Moe
Louise; Lou or Louie or Lolly or Lula or Lulu
Margret; Daisy or Greta or Maggie or Marta or Margot or Meg or Peggy
Penelope; Penny or Polly or Poppy or Nellie
Philippa; Pippa or Peppa or Piper
Sarah; Sallie or Sadie
Tabitha; Tabbie or Tippie
Victoria; Ria or Rory or Via or Vita
Violet; Lettie or Lottie or Via
Wilhelmina; Billie or Minnie or Mina or Willa

Boys
Alexander; Alex or Lex or Lux or Xan or Xander
Augustus; Auggie or August or Gus
Authur; Artie or Thor
Charles; Arlo or Charlie or Chuck or Chet or Chaz or Lee or Les
Edward; Eddie or Ned or Ted
Henry; Hank or Huck or Harry
Isaac; Ike or Iggy or Izzy or Igby or Zeke or Zac or Zigby
James; Jamie or Jimmy or Jem
Jeremy; Jem or Jez or Remy
Joshua; Josh or Joe or Hugh
Leonard; Leo or Leon or Lenny or Loe
Michael; Cael or Milo or Miles
Nicholas; Nico or Nikos or Cole
Patrick; Paddy or Patty or Rick or Trick
Theodore; Theo or Teddy or Ted
William; Will or Willis or Wilk or Liam or Billy or Bo

Anything I've missed?

Comments

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I picked one nn for each and bolded names/nns I would actually use myself.

Adelaide; Addie
Amelia; Melia
Charlotte; Lottie Chuck is cute though and there's also Lotte.
Clementine; Emmy
Dorothy; Dora
Eleanor; Ellie
Elizabeth; Eliza also like Libby but like Eliza better.
Emily; Emmie
Helen(a); Lena
Imogen; Genna
Louise; Lou would use for Louisa
Margaret; Greta also like Maggie, Marta, and Meg, but Greta wins by far
Penelope; Penny I flip flop on Penelope, but Penny could work for Persephone
Philippa; Pippa
Sarah; Sadie
Tabitha; Tabbie
Victoria; Via
Violet; Lettie
Wilhelmina; Mina but I also like Billie

Boys
Alexander; Lex
Augustus; August I like August better as a given name with Gus as the nn
Arthur; Artie
Charles; Charlie
Henry; Huck
Isaac; Izzy
James; Jamie
Jeremy; Remy
Joshua; Josh
Leonard; Leo
Michael; Milo
Nicholas; Cole
Patrick; Paddy
Theodore; Theo
William; Will, Liam Okay, I honestly can't decide between those two.