Effie name...

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I love the name Effie but is it too similar to my cousins name Etty?? Thoughts all appreciated please

I don't know about Effie.

Objectively I like it, it's cute and kind of cool (although agree with others that it's absolutely not a name in its own right, it's definitely a nickname for something else).

However, it does kind of remind me of 'eff' as in swearing as in 'effing and jeffing' etc and that puts me off it.

Lol at 'Effie, brace yourself' - love that film!

Had this pregnancy been a girl he would likely have been Evelyn, known as Effie. Effie is a great name.

Effie is a nice name - it’s originally a nick name like Lizzie or Charlie but I don’t see why that matters. And I don’t think having similar or the same names as family names is an issue.

I read the title of your opening post quickly as “effing name”.

I read the title of your opening post quickly as “effing name”
Me too 😂
I don’t like it sorry OP. It’s too frilly and childish sounding/looking to be a name in its own right. Why not use it as a nickname

I looooove it.
Use the name you love, you’ll regret it if you don’t.
I knew one in college who was Seraphina nn Effie

I know one whose real name is Elizabeth. I wouldn’t use it as a name by itself.

What about Elfrida?

I know an Effie, It's nice name.

I know an Effie it's a lovely name shortened from a Greek name Effrancinie go for it...can be a name on its own or shortened.

It can be used as a nickname for any F name I think (as well as all the other E etc names mentioned). I know a Fiona known as Effie.