Nicknames and the long names that go with them

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

[Poll #883260]


Liz - Elizabeth
Manny - Emmanuel or Manfred
Netta - Antoinette
Denny - Denis
CeCe - Cecilia or Celia
Wes - Wesley or Weston
Jaime - James
Sally - Sarah
Daisy - Margeret
Gordo - Gordon
Hank - Henry
Vinnie - Vincent
Trish - Patricia
Tate - Nathaniel

This was inspired by the fact that I just read in some back entrys of this community that "Tate" is a nickname for Nathan. I never heard that before.

Comments

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

How does Daisy come out of Margaret? LoL That's odd...

[apple-seed.livejournal.com]

Maisy was a common nickname and Daisy evolved from that.

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, it must just be a really old time thing. I had to throw in a couple - nobody-will-get-not-even-me-and-I-made-it, names

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

Hmm...interesting. I still wouldn't get Maisy out of Margaret, but oh well. Good to know though. Learn something new every day!

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

Well, good work on that. LoL :-) Interesting quiz.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I thought about Nathaniel for the last but didn't put it.

I was mostly right.

[poespretty.livejournal.com]

I would never have thought that either except in that "hey, if they can use Peggy as a nn for Margaret or Sally for Sarah or Molly for Mary, well, making up another name for Margaret that has nothing to do with it makes sense" kind of way. ;p

and Tate for Nathaniel would never have occured to me either. Nate yes, Tate no.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

The Peggy for Margaret thing drives my dad insane. LoL Every time he hears someone names Peggy, he's like, "WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM?!" LoL You're dead on with that though. They make no sense. I guess somewhere way back, they did make sense to someone though.

I had never heard Sally for Sarah or Molly for Mary either...WEIRD.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

The presumed origin is actually kind of clever: the French form of Margaret is Marguerite. Marguerite is also the word for the daisy flower. Ergo, Daisy!

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

I've got an aunt that's named Peggy and I always wondered where her named came from, but she didn't know. I think my grandmother never knew either when she named her :)

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Maisie is apparently out of Mairead, which is the Gaelic form of Margaret.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! That's really neat, but still a lot to explain if for some reason you were named Margaret but called Daisy. LoL People ask where Daisy came from and you'd have to be like, "Well in France..., etc." LoL Very interesting though. Thanks.

[oh-so-sweet2me.livejournal.com]

I'm a girl...and my nickname is Denny (only spelt Deni) and my full name is Denielle

[lacuna.livejournal.com]

Jaime? I've only heard of that spelling for the girl's name... I've only ever heard Jamie for a boy.

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've heard that before. It works too!

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

Marguerite is French for "daisy"

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

Although I do have a friend (female) who spells it Jaime and pronounces it JAY-mee.

[twinklieetoes.livejournal.com]

that was fun! :D

[xanya.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's what I always heard.

[turabiannights.livejournal.com]

There was a custom of exchanging Ps and Ms in pet names - don't know why. But that's how you get Margaret -> Meg -> Peg, and Mary -> Molly -> Polly.

[turabiannights.livejournal.com]

Weird, because doesn't Margaret also mean "pearl"? I guess perhaps daisies are pearl-like? I never thought about it in the French before, but I guess that would make sense.