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Best nickname for Penelope?

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CheerfulYank · 06/10/2014 04:55

Penny?
Poppy?
Nell/ie?

Annnnd go! :)

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CheerfulYank · 06/10/2014 05:00

Or Polly even, I suppose!

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MortaIWombat · 06/10/2014 06:21

Ellie
Peppy? Grin

MortaIWombat · 06/10/2014 06:22

Ploppy.

rootypig · 06/10/2014 06:24

Penny.

Nelly is an elephant.

Optimist1 · 06/10/2014 06:35

Loppy

OverAndAbove · 06/10/2014 06:48

PeePee

Bowlersarm · 06/10/2014 06:50

Nell

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CheerfulYank · 06/10/2014 06:51

I'm probably hopelessly juvenile but I giggled madly at that, Over. :o

Doesn't go with our surname really Wink

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Bunbaker · 06/10/2014 07:00

The only one I can think of is Penny. All the Penelopes I have ever known have been Penny or Penelope.

I also, don'y "get" this MN thing about nicknames. Just give your child a name that you like and want to use.

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CheerfulYank · 06/10/2014 07:12

I can't do it!

I have a Margaret and a Samuel, called Maggie and Sam most of the time. I like longer names with nicknames.

The thought of a nickname on a birth certificate makes me twitch. Blush

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TiggyD · 06/10/2014 07:14

The only Penelope I know gets called Pen.

Surfsup1 · 06/10/2014 07:14

Poppy. Cute but not silly and less dated than Penny.

MassaAttack · 06/10/2014 07:21

Neither Nell nor Poppy are diminutives of Penelope though. Poppy is a name in its own right, and Nell is derived from Eleanor Confused

s88 · 06/10/2014 07:23

penny or just P !

MassaAttack · 06/10/2014 07:26

Polly is also nothing to do with Penelope.

Penny is nice enough - if an alternative develops that's fine.

TweeAintMee · 06/10/2014 07:27

Oppy

Iheartautumn · 06/10/2014 07:29

Would Ellie work?

Delphiniumsblue · 06/10/2014 07:30

They get their own nicknames- I wouldn't over think it. Once they get to about 7 yrs you lose control. It will likely be Penny.

SanityClause · 06/10/2014 07:31

I had a good friend at school called Penelope, and she was always Penny. I've never thought of the others.

Once she's at school her friends are likely to choose her nickname anyway. DD1 has had to be quite forceful in order to be called something other that the NN all her friends used.

Comingfoccacia · 06/10/2014 07:33

Penge, Nellpipi, Pennylope.
Sorry, prob not very helpful but nn given to the Penelope i know and love.

Felyne · 06/10/2014 07:36

I know three, ranging from 3 to 75 years old. All are known as Penny.

Smugfearnleyshittingstool · 06/10/2014 07:41

I've heard lady p used as a nn for Penelope ! Kind of cute!?!?

soundevenfruity · 06/10/2014 08:51

I know Penelope whose short name is Peeps.

MsCoconut · 06/10/2014 08:54

Lollipop?

babyblabber · 06/10/2014 09:05

Penelope is top of our list for this bump.

I really don't see how it could be Poppy, that's a bit of a leap I think. Penny is the obvious one, although i'm the opposite of you, don't see the point in putting a name on the birth cert which you don't intend using so ours (if she's a girl) will always be Penelope to us. probably penny to her friends at some stage but I won't encourage it!