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?

Lexie, there was a girl in my class at primary school called Alexa. I thought she had the most wonderful exotic sounding name. I would have swapped with her in an instant if I could have.

Minnie is one of the shorts for Wilhelmina.

I'd forgotten about Lucinda

If it ends in y or ie, it's usually a shortened version.

Sophie

Posted too soon. I meant Sophie isn't shortened and Kerrie isn't.

Why the threads slagging off names NOT on the babynames board?! fair enough on the baby name board imo, but bit random 'i hate lexi' on aibu

fwiw, i wouldn't pick it but it's alright. prefer it to something poncey like Persephone

Sophia or Sofana

Tanith: Amy not shortened!

:o

What is Kerrie short for? Kerrimena? :o

I think Kerrie is a translation of the Gaelic name. So obviously doesn't count.

Amelia

Yeah, but, no, but Sophie doesn't actually end in an ie. The proper spelling is this (but I can't post it directly)

Actually, never found one for Mary, either.

Kerrie is short for Ciarraighe and Amy is originally a shortened form of Amelia or Amanda.

(Google is working overtime today)

Mary is the anglicised shortened version of Mariam or Maria.

Ahem! I shall revise the rule:

If a name ends in y or ie, then it is always, without exception, a shortened or pet form of a longer name.
Except when it isn't

Theres an awful lot of tedious slagging off names threads on MN today.

Yes usual (all started by the same op)

My dd is called Amelia and my nn for her is Millie, anything wrong with that OP?

OP is a bit of a stirrer type if you ask me.

I have thoroughly investigated Tanith's rule to prove it wrong and it is 100% correct.

My niece is Emily and my sister calls her Mabel. I have struggled hard to see the connection...

Bryony. Nur!

I don't really mind what people name their children. Minnie, Milly, Lexi are all names.

As are Ketchup and Mayo if you fancy naming your kids that. It's bit nasty slagging off names on a parenting site where people are likely to have children with those names, no?

Thanks Kladdkaka. You're making me wonder now if we were at the same primary school (because for years I was the only Alexa I'd met!). I'm 28.