The nickname Tatty

[MamaLoLo1]

Any ideas to which name/s could be the source of the nickname Tatty?

Just watched the 2016 Swallows & Amazons (I know the original was Titty...) and think it's rather sweet. The only one I can think of would be Tatiana.

I taught a Tatiana known as Tati. Always thought it a pretty name.

All I think of when I see tatty is

Tatty bye

Tatti/tatty= poo where I am, so no.

better a name for a dog than a child.
it has negative connotations for a person.
don't do it. why burden your child like that, the vanity of a whim.

Natasha
Tatiana
Anastasia

Really, a nickname doesn't need to be directly linked to the main name

Tatiana
Tatum

Tatty bogle is a scarecrow.

The Swallows and Amazon's one was actually called Mavis.

It came from a book she liked called Titty and Tatty Mouse.

My first thought was Catherine/Katherine. I came across a Tatty for a Katherine once. In Swallows and Amazons I know the real Titty was called Mavis, however Titty could also come from Kitty - from Katherine.
Tatty from Kat/Katty works the same as Peg from Meg and Dick from Rick and Bill from Will - so I don't see it as difficult.

Tatty sounds horrible

Sounds like an insult or a potato

It sounds a bit posh, like someone from Made in Chelsea 'I am just going skiing in Val with Binky, Tatty, Booty and Ruffles...'

Also, you can't really give somebody a nickname, they happen naturally or are chosen by the person. It seems a bit odd to start off with one

‘Twatty’ with a typo. Don’t.

If something is "tatty" it means it's scruffy like for example "that blankets so tatty"
I'm sorry but it's horrible what an earth made you think of it

Also, you can't really give somebody a nickname, they happen naturally or are chosen by the person. It seems a bit odd to start off with one

Not true as such. Prince Harry was announced as Henry to be referred to as Harry, and I think that William/Wils was the same.

Harriet / Hatty / Tatty

Tanita?

A common nickname for Tatiana. I mean common as in frequently used

I know a Tatiana aka Tati but with a lengthening on the 'a' Taati' so not Tatty.

I know a 16yr old Tatiana who everyone calls Tatty.
She's lovely and I've never linked her name in my head to the word for scruffy or potato or anything else, it's just her name.

Tabitha, maybe, but my first association would be potato/scruffy, as above!

I would say Tabitha! Tabby may be a compromise.

But yes tatty to me is something old and disheveled or a potato.

Tatty-head is a common nickname for girls with unbrushed hair around here. My dad used to call it me when I was little.

I'm sure I've heard Tatty Bojangles used to mean breasts. Maybe that's just my very strange family though. Still, Tatiana?