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Tess...short for?

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PetitFilous123 · 07/09/2017 16:47

Picking out girls names and other half wants Theresa (which I hate), possible compromise on Tess, but is this a proper name, or more of a nickname kind of name. Also when I hear Tess I do tend to say of the durbevilles in my head...

Thoughts?

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Sugarpiehoneyeye · 07/09/2017 22:14

❤️ Tess, one of my favourite names.

PetitFilous123 · 07/09/2017 23:17

Tess is a winner it seems. I like Tessa also, but will it be annoying once they're at school etc and they have tessa on the register but get called tess?

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PattyPenguin · 08/09/2017 19:11

The official baptismal name of Tess Durbeyfield (in Tess of the D'Urbervilles) was Teresa. Just as her sister Liza Lu was actually christened Eliza Louise.

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