To ask whether Lexi is a 'real' name?

[Liketochat1]

Having just commented on boys names that are drippy, I was put in mind of girl's names I don't especially like, because I don't think think they are 'real'. For example, Millie or Minnie and my biggest bugbear Lexi or Lexie. Aren't they just shortened versions of 'proper' names or nicknames? And I especially dislike Lexi as it rhymes with sexy. To me they are just all wrong!
What do you think? Are they real names? Are there any other names you think about like this?

Lucy is short for Lucille or Lucia.

i think calling someone Juicy is rather sexual originally, but if you use it in a way thats happy to you then fine

christ alive its uncomfy on this fence

My DD is called Minnie. And it IS a proper name. It's an older name used more frequently in the 30's/40's. I love it and it suits her perfectly.

Quite offended actually! Not that you don't like it as we all have different name preferences, but that you say it's not a "real" name.

you were going to have a daughter called antigone, i made an utterly HILARIOUS joke about the legend of antigone that you didnt get. she was walled up in the story, you then went off on one

well i hope you don't get splinters in your backside, Tena!!

Perhaps your 'joke' wasn't as hilarious as you thought it was and where did I go off on one?

Or Lucinda (i have equestrian aspirations ) Lucille is just too "i love lucy" for my liking.

But MY lucy is named after lucy pevensie.

Well i didn't get it, but i've not read the play (or much less know what play it is) I actually quite like it, but its a bit too posh for me Saying that, i really like persephone, but couldn't risk it being shortened to percy! because everyone knows thats a seagull's name

ew would be made into Perci with a heart over the i when she is about 11,

yuck!

I didn't get it and I have read the play, which is why I'm perplexed at the nasty tone of Tena's comments.

Are you meaning to be so rude?

I think that's exactly what Tena means to be. Best ignored...

Why do people get so worked up about other people's names?

It was not a very good joke, was it. You wouldn't need to keep Antigone away from walls, just keep her on the right side of them. Anyway, I like the name Antigone!

Whereas Tigger would have to kept away from walls, on account of all the bouncing.

How can names be 'wrong' OP? I don't get it. Their choice on what to call their kids surely?

I like the name Lucy.

I dislike Lexi because it rhymes with sexy as well. I odn't think that is odd. It is just another downside to a ghastly name.

A girl at work had a baby which she called Lexxii. There is no bloody need for that imo.

My 'meh' name list is topped by Charlotte 'but we will call her Lottie'

In my neck of the woods Charlotte is shortened to Lotta, which has been a name in its own right since the 1700s apparantly.

I think it sounds like a strippers name.

Love Lucy though. Was in my top 3 girls names for both dc.

Pippi wasn't a stripper :o

YABU

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My real name is Alexa. Most of my friends call me Lexie. I personally really like both my name and my nickname.

When I was born and my mum told her MIL that my name was going to be Alexa, MIL accused her of giving me a 'made up name'. She even got her friends to write snotty letters to my parents about this 'cruel choice'.

Then she saw the name mentioned in the paper and it suddenly became OK with her. My mum never quite forgave her for this initial judginess. OP, I'm not quite sure why you care so much about what other people call their children. Most names today are an altered form of an original different name. Where do you draw the line about what is 'proper' or 'real'?

i like An-ti-gon-ee but i first read it as Anti-gone and thought it was a bit scary sounding :)

Lucy, you make it sound like a toilet cleaner :o

I know two Lexis that are just Lexi, not short for anything afaik.

A lot of names were a shortened version/nickname for something else once and become names in their own right.

John/Jack and Henry/Harry for example.