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Can you think of some good full names for the nn Ned (that is not Edward)?
I was toying with Nestor nn Ned.
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What about Edmund instead of Edward?:)
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I love Edward nn Ned. How about Edwin, Edgar or even Enid? I think Ned would be kind of spunky on a girl.
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I asked this question a while back and got some names:Benedict
Maynard
Leonard
Bernard
Renard / Reynard
Ferdinand
Nekoda
Nandwin - It's a user-submitted name.You could also look up surnames that could have Ned as a nn.
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I preferany of these over Nestor. I think Nestor would easily replace Chester as the molestor.I like Benedict best of these names. Or Ferdinand, though I don't see how Ned is derived from Ferdinand.
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Ned comes from Ferdinand because Ferdinand contains the letters N and D. I don't worry excessively about the E because vowels in English nns aren't necessarily correlated with the name. For example, Jim and Jem are nns for James, Jenny originated as a nn for Jane, Midge is a nn for Margaret, Millie can be a nn for Amelia, etc.Ned from Ferdinand is a bit of a stretch, but as I've discovered, finding formal names for which Ned can be a nn is extremely difficult. Sometimes you have to take what you can get.
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The other Ed- names, of course: Edmond / Edmund, Edwin, Edison, Edan, Edgar, et cetera.Otherwise:Nikomedes
Nicodemus
Benedict
Nekoda
Eldon
Everard
Renaud
TancredNestor "Ned" does nothing for me. I read a bit in French last fall about an awful Nestor, and I've been scarred ever since. ;)Array
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Nestor is nice but I don't like Ned
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