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First of all, I don't perceive all those mns as being nns - or anyway as being the same kind of nn.

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Leo, Jules and Liv are pretty standard as fns in their own right, and I wouldn't blink if I met a Sophie who was just that, and not Sophia. Which leaves Katie!

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So, let's focus on Katie and, say, Jimmy. If those were used as mns, I'd assume that it was for family or personal reasons - a wish to honour a Katharine or a James who always went by those nn forms. And that would be just fine; I'd like it. And I'd like the fact that mns tend not to be in daily use, as well.

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Katie and Jimmy as fns would get a very different reaction from me: regret that the parents were limiting their child's choice by giving a name that, by definition, did not have a nn form. Katharine could be that, could be Kate, Katie, Kathy, Ree, Rina, and could change from one to another as fashions or her personal preferences changed.