Josephine? Nickname pepper?

[Lollipoppit]

Has anybody come across a Josephine with the nickname pepper?
Apparently the Spanish equivalent of Joe is pepe and Google lists pepper as an option for a nickname for Josephine?

Any thoughts on Josephine?
Would sephy be too boyish for a girls nickname?

The only Josephines I've known have been Josie. Pepper seems tenuous unless you have spanish heritage.

honestly - nn tend to form themselves.

You can call you child any nn you like.

I cannot see anything boyish about Sephy. And if you like Pepper then use it, no need to explain the link.

I don't think Sephy is boyish at all. Indeed, the only Sephy I know is a girl (short for Sephryn).

I wouldn't link pepper to Josephine really

I do love Jo as a girls nickname

I think Sephy is fine for a girl, it's a bit of a leap from Josephine though.

Please don't call your child Pepper (or Salt or Vinegar...).

You can call your baby anything you like but no, Pepper is in no way a nickname for Josephine. Jo, Joey, Josie would be the common options.

I do know a Penelope called Pepe (peppy) and you could reasonably use that If you wanted a little Pepper.

Josephine is a nice enough name but pepper is a stupid nn. Just use Jo or Josie. Sephy is ok, at least it’s a more obvious link

It’s a bit of a stretch isn’t it?

Bit like those posters who say they want to name their baby Sam in honour of their Grandad Kenneth or some other extremely tenuous connection.

I love Josephine (it's our runner up for this DC if it's a girl) but I wouldn't get Pepper from it. To be honest, Pepper makes me think of Peppa Pig - so it wouldn't be my first pick.

I like Sephy as a nickname from Josephine though. My favourite Josephine nickname is Effie (I know it's usually for Elizabeth but it seems to make far more sense for Josephine when there's literally an 'Eph/Eff' sound in it!)

Pepper sounds like one of those nicknames that waspy preppy American girls get called.

Sephy is lovely and more natural.

@Dollywilde What's your front runner for a girl at the moment?

I'd be more thinking pepper pots from iron man, badass that she is 😊

Apparently Posy is a nickname for Josephine which I thought was cute.

NNs are not chosen beforehand they just develop over time. DS's given name is Adam. His NNs over time have been Beany, Beans, Beebs, Bobby, Dr Bobby, and now he is 26 'Bob'. No one knows why, no one ever did.

I can imagine it happening organically sort of thing. But I'd find it weird to force pepper if it doesn't happen naturally.

Posie makes more sense or Sephy, Fifi, Josie etc. There are loads of nn options!

Echoing PP with Sephy, not boyish at all to me, I view it as more female. The main character from the Noughts and Crosses series was a girl called Sephy (Persephone).

Pepper doesn't feel like a natural nickname for Josephine to me. But nicknames don't always have to be directly derived from the sounds of a name. Look at the girls in Made in Chelsea, Catherine Dunlop = Caggie and Alexandra Felstead = Binky!!!

Not a big fan of Pepper or Josephine, I HATE Peppa Pig, and knew a fairly unpleasant Josephine at school, so.... I do like Sephy though.

The nickname for Josephine is Josie. Or Jo.

In the words of Regina George. Stop trying to make Pepper happen. It's not going to happen.

I think Sephy would be a beautiful and unusual nickname for a Josephine. One of the protagonists in the novel Noughts and Crosses is called Sephy (short for Persephone in her case), and although I'd never come across the name before, it really grew on me while I was reading it. It's also a nickname that she can continue to use as an adult, unlike Pepper.

Pepper makes me think of the tough orphan in Annie, and Peppa Pig.

You could call her Philippa and shorten to Pippa or Pip?

If she is called Josephine, her friends will call her Jo. Not pepper. If you want to call her pepper, name her pepper. Her friends will then probably call her something like salt.

In the words of Regina George. Stop trying to make Pepper happen. It's not going to happen.

Funnily enough, that's just reminded me of 'Josie Grossie' from Never Been Kissed!

But nicknames don't always have to be directly derived from the sounds of a name. Look at the girls in Made in Chelsea, Catherine Dunlop = Caggie and Alexandra Felstead = Binky!!!

Yes if you're all plummy, then this can happen. I know a Christina known as "Bumble" and a Donald known as "Badger" and am Emma known as "Tigs." But that's because they are frightfully posh.

Pepper isn't a nickname for anything. Unless we are welcoming little baby Pepperami.

Nns develop, they're not chosen. If you want A specific nn, own it. Nobody would get pepper from Josephine.

Odd .

Tenuous as best to link it to a Spainish version (especially if you aren't of Spainish heritage).

Choose a name you like and actually want to call them by.

Josephine could be
Jo
Jojo
Josie
Feana (I LOVE)
Joey
Josie Jo
Sephy is lovely
Jos I also love jos. So pretty or could be pronounced Joz too.

The nickname thing reminds me of a great Greg Davies sketch I saw about this recently. He recounts going to school once with a kid nicknamed "Baghdad"...

"Was he Iraqi? Did he come over here as a refugee? No. He once came to school with a new bag, which he said his dad got him. Hence, "Baghdad". He is now 50. He is still called Baghdad."

You really cannot pick nicknames!