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I do know a girl - OK, she's 26 - named Theodora. Her father is a lay preacher and loves the name, she was his first child, he always and only uses the full form ... but she hates it with a passion and is known as Theo, that being the only short form she's willing to contemplate. She is elegant, beautiful, intelligent, charming - all the right things - and so she can carry it off. Though I did meet her once when she was in uniform, and her name badge read Theodora, so someone must have put an authoritative foot down!