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I love nicknames and what I love about them is that you can give your child a beautiful, extremely formal name and then a nickname and they have the option of either ;)

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Addy – Adele / Adelaide
Betty – Beatrice / Benedetta
Della – Adelaide / Cordelia
Dolly – Dorothy
Ellie – Eliora / Eleanor / Aliénor / Helena / Helen / Helene / Heloise
Etta – Elisabetta / -ette names / -etta names
Gwen – Gwendolyn / Guinevere
Hatty – Harriet / Hypatia
Hetty – Henrietta / Helena / Helen / Helene
Kitty / Kit – Katherine
Letty – Alecto / Lucretia
Lily – Lillian / Liliana
Maggie – Magdalena / Margaret / Magnolia*
May – Mabel / Mary
Meg – Magdalena
Milly – Millicent / Melisande
Mina – Wilhelmina
Missy – Melissa
Molly – Margaret / Marinella
Nell – Cornelia
Nora – Eleanor / Eleanora / Aliénor / Honor / Honora / Annora
Peggy
Polly – Penelope / Parthenope / Persephone
Sookie
Tess – Theresa / Teresa
Thea – Althea / Athena / Theodora
Tilly / Tillie – Matilda