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Do you think DeeDee is due a revival?

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 23/04/2011 20:07

Wink
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Collision · 23/04/2011 20:08

No

why particularly?

Janoschi · 23/04/2011 20:20

Not sure about DeeDee but I did like Didi when on the hunt for names. Thought it'd make a nice nickname for Deborah....

valiumbandwitch · 23/04/2011 21:40

Has it been really popular at some point in the past? I'd guess it's rising in popularity. Names like Lulu and Mimi and Gigi woulduld have sounded like poodles 25 years ago. Now I wouldn't know.

PorkChopSter · 23/04/2011 21:44

Actually, no.

oneofsuesylvesterscheerios · 23/04/2011 21:49

Why the Wink?

DeeDee sounds like a woman who runs a B&B who still wears her hair like Dusty Springfield and shouldnt wear her skirts so short now she's over 60.

2cats2many · 23/04/2011 21:52

Please tell me that you're joking...

Emelene · 23/04/2011 22:27

No. I really dislike it. A nickname for a little girl maybe, but I'm still not keen.
It just sounds middle aged. :/

cat64 · 23/04/2011 22:29

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saythatagain · 23/04/2011 22:30
Shock Dee Dee is the name dd gave herself the moment she could talk - it's stuck ever since but only with me & dh. Don't know where she got from but it's definatley stuck
gruber · 23/04/2011 22:31

Erm, no. Sorry.

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 23/04/2011 23:41

Really?

No-one?

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CointreauVersial · 23/04/2011 23:45

Isn't one of Pan's People called Dee Dee?

EllieG · 23/04/2011 23:46

Is is short for something? It sounds like one of the silly girls in Grease to me.

TethersEnd · 23/04/2011 23:54

I love it.

edam · 24/04/2011 00:03

It's a nickname, not an actual name that you'd put on a proper birth certificate. Imagine some poor person having to admit their full formal name is Dee Dee every time they apply for a passport or a driving licence, or get married, or correspond with Revenue & Customs or have to respond to a speeding fine....

JellyBeansOnToast · 24/04/2011 01:33

DD, people, DD.

HappyWifeandMum · 24/04/2011 02:22

Looks like you might have one vote up there... Personally, I would definitely pass.

expatinscotland · 24/04/2011 02:31

This is the name of the eldest girl whose younger siblings could not pronounce 'Deirdre'. It is therefore not a real name, but a nickname given by infants like my 2-year-old.

Else it might be the nickname of someone whose name is Diana, but still, it's not a real name.

Don't go there. It is made up the product of hormones stuff.

HengshanRoad · 24/04/2011 05:09

It means "penis" in Mandarin Chinese, if that's any help...

pilates · 24/04/2011 07:50

I've never heard of it, its dreadful.

JellyBeansOnToast · 24/04/2011 08:11

Oh come ON. DD....DD

I am spelling it out for you!

ShoutyHamster · 24/04/2011 09:19

DeeDee Ramone

Yeah go for it :)

purepurple · 24/04/2011 09:22

Hey ho let's go!

Ladyloo · 24/04/2011 10:34

we use it as a short form of Lydia.

edam · 24/04/2011 10:36

Thanks for the Mandarin fact, Hengshan, am storing that one away as I'm sure it will come in useful at some point!