Titty as a name?

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Discovered a copy of Swallows and Amazons and one of the girls is called Titty.
The others have more standard names for the time.
I assume it is a diminutive of something, but what, and why?
Surely by the 1930s there was some correlation between the words tits and breasts?

Titiana?

I was so concerned this was a baby-naming thread.

Can't contribute any information to your questions though 😅

Titty is short for Laetitia I think.
And yes, I assume tits were around then but it didn't stop Dick?

There was Aunt Fanny in the Famous Five.

Titty in Swallows and Amazons is short for Letitia. It has been changed to Kitty in later editions!

Titty was based on a real person- https://www.allthingsransome.net/literary/mavisgu.htm who was known by that name.

Just had a quick google and Titty in Swallows and Amazons was inspired by Mavis “Titty” Altounyan.
It's akin to Fanny being a popular name of its time I suppose.

Same! 😂

I would have assumed Titiana too but I spy a link above that says otherwise.

They used to have some weird names in the past that you never hear anymore. I watch a few historical programmes and I think thank goodness those names disappeared 😄

This will age me.

My Mum made me go to see an old, hermit, spinster to invite her to our street party for the Queens 25th Jubilee. I'd never seen her out before apart from from a distance in her garden.

I knocked on her door and, as she opened it, her cat got out and she went into a mad undeciperable rant. I asked her what her cat was called so I could try and retrieve her. Titty.

So now I'm running around our road, calling Titty, and my friends are finding it hilarious! For weeks after, at school, my friends from our road would shout Titty Titty at me in the corridor!

Up to the age of 3 my daughter couldn't make the k sound so would call cats titty. She would shout look a titty whenever she saw one in the street. We got some weird looks!

Phew, it's about a character from Enid Blyton. Thought you were considering naming a child that!

I am told that the real Mavis loved the story Titty and Tatty mouse so much she was called Titty by her family.

A film version in the 60s called her Tatty.

Arthur Ransom, not Enid Blyton.

In Spain the diminutive for 'Estefania' (beautiful name IMO), is Fanny. And kids here call their teachers by their first names - I will never forget hearing 9 year olds call their teacher Fanny and not giggling. Don't think they ever wised up to what it meant in English.

Sorry, of course it is!!!

Titty was the name my eldest child wanted to call her unborn sister. She insisted on it for months..obviously we didn’t go ahead with it 😅

Shucks. I was praying this was a baby naming thread.

Enid Blyton's Jo, Bessie and Fanny are now edited to Joe, Beth and Frannie. Cousin Dick is now Rick.

Same! I'm not sure if I'm relieved or disappointed. 😂

A friend of mine has a French friend called Fanny. It's short for something but I can't remember what. She lives in France, I guess it's an ok name there.

Pardon my naivety, but what's wrong with Bessie?

my grandmother was called Fanny. She went by her middle name. I wonder why (she died when I was 5 so never got to ask)

And what's wrong with Jo? Transing? Best character in Little Women.

Jo in the Faraway Tree books is a boy so they’re just switching to the more usual male spelling there.

No idea what’s wrong with Bessie though!