Eppie

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Heard this name today and think it is gorgeous! I think it can be short for Hepzibah...which I don't like!

What do you think? I also like Effie but I don't think it sounds great with our surname as it has an f sound in it!

Eppie 'Trophy' sounds like apostrophe.

Effie always makes me think someone is swearing. I wouldn't use it, but especially with 'Trophy' as the surname -- too rhymey.

If your surname starts with a B maybe Aphra would go? Aoife might be better as it's Irish. I could be guessing wrong here however.

Esther is nice (as suggested)
Harriet (nn Etta or Hattie or Hettie)?

BobPatSamandIgglePiggle your story is from Silas Marner, and that Eppie was a Hepzibah. A very sweet story, and it's a lovely part of it, but not a good name now I think.

I really like it because of Silas Marner but unfortunately these days it has different connotations and she will be teased because of them.

Pen here too.

And Effie Trophy is too rhyming.

I thought pen too

I also thought epipen, epilepsy and adrenaline (epi is US medical dramas). Sorry.

We have a Sephie, which is a similar sound. Short for Persephone which I know divides opinion on Mumsnet! I've also seen it spelt Seffi amd Sephy (which is how the character in the book Noughts and Crosses spells it).

I know a Letty which is in a similar vein too.

Or there's Steffi/Stephie (short for Stephanie or in its own right).

How about Bernadette, nn Etta?

Bernadette is quite retro cool imo.

I thought epidural! Effie is a lot nicer

Not sure if it's similar enough but I have a 9 month old Erin and her nn (among others) is Eri (E-ree).

I know a 5 year old Effie whose name is just Effie. Eppie just reminds me of an old folk song Eppie Moray (I think) who was carried away by the laird but fought so hard "he couldna stretch her spey" she was a heroine :)

Elvie?

Just found the lyrics, thegreylady. She was!

All through the night they wrestled there
Until the light of day,
And Willie grat and Willie swat
But he could not stretch her spey, her spey
He could not stretch her spey.

Thank you Empress I must try to find a recording on YouTube. i haven't heard it for many years :)

I use an 'eppy' pen but didn't think of that.

For some reason I thought Penelope or Persephone. And I adore the name Persephone so go for it also love Effy and would use as a nn for Persephone or Elizabeth.

Oh, dislike hepzibah like you though.

I like Ettie. Edie is very popular these days too.

I feel your pain as a lot of the names I really like just don't go with our surname.

How about Etta?

I knew an Eppie when I was a child, she was a few years younger so would be mid to late twenties by now. I really like it

I immediately thought 'throw an eppie' too.

What on earth does 'stretch her spey' mean?!

Epi is the pen or the slang word.

I know a woman called Pepe (could also be Pepi I guess). Fairly similar?

It means break her hymen so that she is no longer a virgin and the forced marriage would have been consummated. Look up Eppie Morrie lyrics on YouTube and you will find it.

Or listen to it here.

Blimey, look what I just did!