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?

Oh I apologise tena! I thought you were the op for a second. Still you did come up with spread your legs flora and juicy Lucy.

So some people like it and some people don't obviously. Some people agree with me and some don't. Sexy Lexi is just what 'I' think when I see it. I probably heard it somewhere and now that's stuck in my mind! Anyway, I don't like the name. Millie and Minnie just feel like shortened names. But others like them. Some do, some don't. Fair enough.
I think if I liked the name Lexi I'd call her Alexandra, Alexa or Alexia so at least she'd have a choice when she's older. Lexi can only be shortened to Lex and that's worse for a girl to me.

I have a Charlotte who we call Lottie :o

I wanted to call her Charlotte but I think she suits Lottie and it's a change from Charlie, which seems to be the general shortening for Charlotte around here.

She's not a harlot but she is rather grotty so Lottie probably suits her best, but she is only 18 months old.

I have a Charlotte who would give you the look if you dared to call her Lottie.

I think Lexie's lovely, especially with a Scottish accent misspent youth watching monarch of the glen

I have just been having a look at a couple of names ending in 'y' or 'ie' as I have a Maisie and I couldn't thing where that could of come from. Evidently its from the scottish name Mariead, the gaelic form of Margaret.

But, I was wondering about Daisy? That doesn't seem to come from any other name.. Well not that I found in my half arsed attempt :-D

Ha! I think I have just found the exception to Tanith's rule! What about Wendy? It's a made-up name and therefore not short for anything else. [smug]

Daisy apparantley comes from the old English dægeseage meaning 'day's eye'.

Wendy is short for Gwendolyn apparantly. Vermicious, have you been up all night looking for that?

What about Suri, as in Cruise? I'm buggered if I know what that's short for!

I knew about Wendy/Gwendolyn, but I still think all these Celtic/Germanic names follow different rules from the Latinate ones anyway.

What about Naomi, as well? Surely that is not short for anything, or is it? Or Nathalie?

Nathalie is a varient of Natalie which is a shortened version of Natale Domini.

Naomi and Suri don't count as Tanith's Rule only applies to names ending in 'ie' and 'y'. :o

Not read all the way through so apologies if already mentioned

Wendy - not a shortened version of anything as JM Barrie made it up for Peter Pan

Oh, really?! That is beautiful, I didn't know that. That's lovely.

I'll sulk now about 'naomi' not counting ...phonetically it's the same and I thought I'd really done well!

fruity - no, wendy exists pre- Peter Pan. He may have made it up but it was in use before.

ha, and I see it has been mentioned

serves me right for not reading the full thread

We've already covered that fruity. It's a shortened version of Gwendolyn. (Apparantly it first appeared in the UK census in 1881)

Wendy is a shortened version of Gwendolyn? Oh. :( It came to me as a sudden flash of inspiration. I guess that's my sudden flash of inspiration for this week used up.

No worries fruity, this thread has been an eye-opener for me too.

Now I wonder, did Barrie hear it somewhere and only take it in subconsciously, so he thought he'd invented it, or what?

How about Buffy!

A quick google reveals Buffy is in fact a shortened version of Elizabeth, coming from a child's pronounciation of the final syllable.

Buffy is short for Elizabeth according to google

Hmpf.

Yeah, in Buffy I think they say she's Elizabeth.

I have never watched Buffy. Please don't mention that on the other thread.

Oooh, what about Kylie?

Kylie is from the Irish O?Cadhla