what is effie short for?

[trixiechick]

saw it on another thread it's lovely. Anyone know what its short for?

Euphemia I think.

Euphemia - I love it, it is on our list at the moment.
Also could be used for Ethel, which i have also been thinking about a lot lately and i am liking more and more.

I know an Effie short for Elizabeth.

Euphemia???!!! Sounds like a disease to me.

Elizabeth.

I love the nickname Effie.

My Granny was called Euphemia, her nn was Etta; I knew another Euphemia who was always called Fay. I don't like the name Euphemia myself particularly, whether said out loud or written down, but I love the nicknames!

Nora

It's also a gallic name in its own right. In Scotland it's spelled Aoiffe but pronounced Effie.

My dd is Aphra and friends call her Affie (we just call her Aph).

My Effie is merely a feminisation of Ephraim, but it seems Euphemia is the norm. Mum23monkeys, that's very interesting that Aoiffe is pronounced 'Effie' in Scotland; in my silly sassanach way, I had pronounced Aoiffe a bit like 'Eva' (but with 'f' rather than 'v' noises). Am very pleased to have learned better.

I always thought Aioffe was pronunced A-off-e. Though I've never met anyone with that name.

My Great Aunt was an Effie but I have no idea what her proper name was. We nearly called DD Effie.

Could you use Evelina? (great novel)

Or a full name F- E-? Felicity Emma or somesuch? (clearly cannot think of names beginning with F)

LOL @ VeryAnnieMary - I never thought of that, and my own initials are LC, resulting in the nickname Elsie when I was at school. I didn't like it then but don't mind it now - typically, nobody would think of calling me that now.

My best friend as a teenages we always called Effie or Ef by me - her name was Jennifer...

I know a woman who has a DD called Stephanie known as Effie

Aoife isn't the gaelic of Effie--Oighrig is. Aoife is an Irish name some people use for Eva....Have an Auntie Oighrig/Effie (Euphemia). She hates it.

My Gran was called Euphemia - she was known as Famie , which I really like .

This was on my list for DD but DH hated it !

At my Gran's funeral the minister kept referring to her as Effie - oops .

Ophelia (effie-lia)

Effalump

@ Pesto

Aioffe is pronounced eeffa isn't it?