s/o: Older nicknames

ShannonSky

In my search for nicknames for some of the great names you ladies gave, I found this link and thought you all might like it: https://genealogy.about.com/library/bl_nicknames.htm

It's a listing of common nicknames used by previous generations and their traditional given name equivalents. Good stuff!

mlf625

Very interesting!  What's the deal with Margaret?  According to that Margaret can go by Daisy, and I know two Margarets IRL who go by Peggy.  How did Margaret become so versatile?

Allie30

When it's one of only four or five names used in a village, it needs a lot of nicknames.

austenreader85

mlf625:

Very interesting!  What's the deal with Margaret?  According to that Margaret can go by Daisy, and I know two Margarets IRL who go by Peggy.  How did Margaret become so versatile?

Daisy would come from Little Women where Margaret, called Meg, named her daughter Margaret and they called her Daisy.  

I think I once read in a name book that Margaret is one of the names with the most nick names and variations.

Edit:  And I do attribute it to this book and not an already existing nickname because they named the boy twin John, after his father, and called him Demi (French for little).  You'd have to know the book, but they were trying to be creative about it.

laurynfaerie

mlf625:

Very interesting!  What's the deal with Margaret?  According to that Margaret can go by Daisy, and I know two Margarets IRL who go by Peggy.  How did Margaret become so versatile?

I read somewhere that alot of the seemingly random nicknames, like Peggy for Margaret, came from the Victorian era. They apparently liked to rhyme. So Meg became Peg, and Meggy became Peggy. Same deal with Will/Bill, and Rob/Bob.

I might be wrong, but that is what I found when I looked it up one day.

I have no clue how they got Daisy though.

tct1219

mlf625:

Very interesting!  What's the deal with Margaret?  According to that Margaret can go by Daisy, and I know two Margarets IRL who go by Peggy.  How did Margaret become so versatile?

i don't know but margaret has so many great nicknames. daisy and may are my favorites.

JaysonandKristin

feffy11:

I'm an Effie, and the longer version of my name isn't on there!

Makes me feel special, considering the popularity of Stephanie in my generation...

Every time I see you write that you go by Effie, I immediately think of Mrs. Doubtfire...  Euphegenia Doubtfire 

She (he) describes sex between her and her "husband" and the "husband" refers to her as Effie...