Is Effie a name or short for something

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On Mama’s Family she has a sister-in-law named Effie. Is this short for something or a name in full?

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I once had a neighbor who was called Effie. Her actual first name was Persephone. I think Effie can also be a nickname for women named Elizabeth, Josephine, Euphemia, lots of other things.

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I think it’s short for Euphemia.

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I thought it was short for Iphegena (Iphegenia?), but apparently I’m wrong. It’s Euphemia. At least it’s Greek.

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euphemia, ephrosene, epiphania for starters, all have ephie or effie as nicks.

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My Granny’s name is Effie. It’s not short for anything.

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(Sorry, RockingChair. Didn’t mean to rain on your parade with my edit. I had accidentally left the link out the first time, and by the time I returned, your post was there!)

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In the film “Mrs. Doubtfire,” it’s short for Euphegenia.

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Didn’t Edgar Bergen have another little wooden friend named Effie Klinker??

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We met a guy who owned a steel sailboat. He called her **Effie O II **
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In case you don’t get it, that’s iron oxide - rust - steel boat - cute, huh?

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in other news… i actually saw a bit of a parade this morning. no worries, no rain!

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Esther.

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Sam Spade’s “faithful secretary” in The Maltese Falcon was named Effie Perine. Unfortunately, I don’t believe either the book or the movie ever gave her real name. Spade was too busy calling her “angel”, “darling”, and a “class dame”.

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My great-grandmother (Dad’s side) was named Effie–that was her name. Not saying it couldn’t be a nickname for another name, but it is a name in it’s own right. It was probably a more popular name … in the nineteenth century (heh).

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There’s a TV character ‘Effy’, in that case short for Elizabeth.

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I had a great-aunt named Effie. It seems to have been a moderately popular name in the U.S. for children born in 1900. It then began dropping in popularity and had nearly disappeared by about 1950:

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Effie is also short for Evelyn.

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Could it not also be a corruption of the Irish name Aoife? (Pronounced EE-fa)

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I agree with you on this… one of the members of Cherish the Ladies pronounced her name “Effie”

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Interesting and thanks for the site link.

Yeah Candice Bergan’s had another wooden friend named “Effie” to play with when she was little, I never heard of her but my Granny confirms this…LOL