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What name could have the nickname Pixie?

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Sparklesdontshine · 10/04/2018 20:00

Really liking Pixie for a first name, but not sure if its a bit much? Is there anything that Pixie could be a nickname for?

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Marcipex · 04/05/2022 00:48

I know a Pixie but she’s a very pretty girl with pretty mother and sisters, so it suits her.

Pregnantmummmmm · 03/05/2022 20:43

What did you call your baby in the end?

Cosmoa · 17/04/2018 08:59

My friend is called Pixie. She changed her name to it legally in the end. Tbh I can't even remember her 'real' name anymore! Sure it was something like Stephanie! I call her Pixel as a nickname to Pixie 😛

LadyPug · 13/04/2018 13:40

What about Pixie as a middle name?

strawberrypenguin · 13/04/2018 09:07

Choose a name you like and use Pixie as a 'family nickname'
Please don't actually call her Pixie. What if she turns out to be 6ft and a rugby player.

ProseccoPoppy · 13/04/2018 08:58

The one Pixie I know is actually called Laura. Please don’t use Pixie as her given name - that would be awful if she was shy/bigger built and a potential hinderance if she wanted to have a more “conservative” professional career.

mummytothree87 · 13/04/2018 08:57

My niece is called Pixie and her nickname is pickles. I wasnt sure of it to start with but its grown on me

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Backhometothenorth · 11/04/2018 20:09

My school friend Pix/ Pixie/ Pickles was Victoria

villainousbroodmare · 11/04/2018 18:18

Could be a cute nn for a child with any given name at all. Would really not recommend it as a given name.

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jaimelannistersgoldenhand · 11/04/2018 12:11

I think that the problem with Pixie is that it conjures up the image of someone who is petite.

My name is Grace and I am dyspraxic (uncoordinated and clumsy) so far from graceful which is what my parents hoped for.

MinaPaws · 11/04/2018 12:01

I really dislike it as a given name, because it sounds like the poor child is lumbered with parents who think they are no more than a cute little accessory, not a real person. But it's fine as a nickname if the child also has a real name.

Could be nickname for Priscilla, Philippa, Patricia, Phyllis, Pippa, Phyllida, Philomena

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 11/04/2018 11:57

Just go with Pixie if that's the name you like. But give her at least one middle name.

ErrantBakedBean · 11/04/2018 11:54

Penelope

catinapoolofsunshine · 11/04/2018 10:48

You could call her Nixie

:o Apparently it is a name, meaning water sprite...

catinapoolofsunshine · 11/04/2018 10:21

Sparkles it will always be a "Marmite" name. It isn't really a name. Its like calling your child Honey, or Monkey, or Peanut or something. Its absolutely and totally fine as a nickname which might end up being used almost all the time.

Unlike Elizabeth or Emma or any other conventional name a nickname style name has a high change of being hugely inappropriate for the person your unborn child grows to be.

It would be a lot harder to be a size 18 Pixie than a size 18 Lucy or Beatrice or Patricia or any other conventional name, and no matter how much you might want your child to be a cheeky, impish petite thing, she might not be...

I used to teach an Ariel who was a rather sombre Eyore in character and very solidly built. Her teens really would have been so much easier for her if she'd been called Emily or Olivia or Georgina or even Chardonnay or Lily-Mae :o , - basically any other less overtly inappropriate name!

EightNine · 11/04/2018 10:18

Pixie lott is a Victoria, and that does kind of make sense....Vixie to Pixie

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Sparklesdontshine · 11/04/2018 10:06

If we do just go for Pixie, do you think it's not too "cutesy?"

I do like Beatrix, with the option of Trixie, but dh isn't keen

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madeyemoodysmum · 10/04/2018 22:02

I like the Beatrice link. I think that works well

LockedOutOfMN · 10/04/2018 21:56

In Cádiz here in Spain "pisha" is the nickname for Patricia. Pixie would work too, I feel.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 10/04/2018 21:54

Just go with Pixie, it's so cute, you really don't need permission.🌺

AfterSchoolWorry · 10/04/2018 20:43

Persephone

dinosaurfeet · 10/04/2018 20:42

I know a Victoria who is sometimes Vix, sometimes Pixie

LoveInTokyo · 10/04/2018 20:41

Priscilla or Philippa?