A fried has a Grand Daughter with that name without the " ’ ". He’s a Minister. I’ll ask the meaning when I see him.
I bet all the Ebony’s and Alexis’s (various spellings)that graduated with the lil’wrekker had different names.
There were literally 3 Ebony Jacksons. 2 were cousins to each other.
Alexis, Alexa, Alexia, Lexy, Alex, Alix, Alexandra. All female.
One guy named Alex was lost in the crowd.
(Disclaimer: my oldest granddaughter is an Alex)
Which reminds me of anothe fictional character with an odd name that shortens to normal. Chrissy from Three’s Company. Most people assume Chrissy is short for Christine or something similar. In fact, her father (a reverend) gave her the first name Christmas. Thus, her full name is Christmas Snow.
To be fair, that’s a perfectly cromulent name if it’s coming by way of Gaelic. But most of the people I’ve seen whose children are named “Micheal”, I’m guessing they’re just dumbasses who can’t spell for shit.
Brandons too.
That was the name on the dog in the “Downton Abbey” series, and there is (was? Haven’t seen her in a while) young lady at a nearby grocery store with that name.
A few years ago, a metaphysical bookstore in the Denver area had to amend their name to “Goddess Isis” after the store was vandalized, and they found out that it was not a random act.
One of my friends has a daughter who has an alternate spelling of “Olivia” that I won’t post here because it’s unique enough to identify her. When I saw it, I was, like, “Um, what?” but when I saw her as a newborn, I knew immediately that this was indeed the right name for her. Olivia, she is not. This, she is.
Actress Schuyler Fisk is the daughter of Sissy Spacek.
There was a brief thing about the name ‘Becky’
There were people I saw wearing t-shirts that said ’ That’s just Becky being Becky’
I asked the lil’wrekker about it. Her answer was unsatisfying.
But she bought me a shirt that says ‘I’m just being Becky’
I kinda like it.
When I was a kid a friend of mine had a cousin named Carrion. I’ve always wondered if they changed their name as soon as they were old enough.
My wife’s father insists that the hospital gave her the wrong name; that is the nurse misheard him and wrote down the wrong name on the birth certificate. (Think “Betsy” when the parents had said “Betty.”) They never bothered to get it changed.
My legal name is a shortened version of a more common name (think “Joe” instead of “Joseph”). A few times I’ve had people call me the longer name in error, I tend to ignore them.
I knew a guy with the same name, only he spelled it, “Trae.” His legal name was “Tracy,” and he hated it: “Nobody told my parents that Tracy is a girl’s name, I guess.” Meh, he was perfectly happy with “Trae.”
Same happened with a long-ago friend. His legal name was “Ronny,” but a lot of our high school teachers insisted upon calling him “Ronald.” He was happy as “Ron,” but absolutely detested being called “Ronald.”
Lots of the name Trace for boys. I suspect because of the country music star Trace Atkins.
I have a guy cousin named Stacy. He really hates it. His baby brother ‘Bubba’ ain’t too happy either.
One of our family names back in the 1800s was “Unruh” German for quarrelsome or unrestful =) [back on mrAru’s father’s side]
mrAru’s father and he share the same first name, different middle names so he was always called [making up names] Andy, Andy Panda, Andrew McGru, McGru. In the Navy, he got called by just his surname, or Rob or Bob [variants of his first name, again made up] And for a while there was a guy on base with the exact same name, first, middle and last, they had to put the last 4 digits of their social security numbers to make sure the mail got to the right person =)
I have found 13 different ways to spell my first name, 4 ways for my middle name. Sigh.
Nowadays? Ashleigh was never a popular name. It reached its peak in 1993 at #188 among girls. On the other hand, Ashley was a top-5 name for over 15 years throughout the 80s and 90s. It’s Ashleigh that was the weird variant from parents that wanted something distinctive.
Contrariwise, I know a (male) Tracy who does not regret it or abbreviate it at all… getting back to the top-10 list, though, what’s supposedly wrong with David or Isabella? The list does not make it seem like they all changed their name to Max Power or similar. I do not get “Michael” being among both the 10 most changed and 10 most adopted, but it is clearly polarizing for some reason.
I have a nephew named after a Legend of Zelda character, but it’s a fairly obscure one and the name also happens to have a legit Old English meaning that’s fairly flattering. It’s not as if he has to live his life as Ganondorf or Octorock or something.
I dunno, I grew up reading the Ashleigh Brilliant (male, British, 89 yrs old) comic and assumed that was the original spelling, and a male name before it became a popular girl’s name.
IIRC, they soon changed their name to IS after the irony of naming an Islamist group after an Egyptian goddess had been pointed out.
Trip and Trey used to be nicknames for boys who were ‘the third’,
as in John Jones III.
I went to school with several, over the years.
A previous Taoiseach of Ireland was Micheál Martin, and IIRC the BBC was punctilious about pronouncing it “Me-haul”.
When I was a child, my aunt would call me by the [now abandoned for use with males??] short name “Patsy”, which annoyed me even then. And my father’s family had this odd habit of mixing up nicknames for even perfectly ordinary English names, so they had Harry-called-Bob, Cyril-called-Bob and even Bob-called-Bob. Somehow they understood each other.
As is Trae Young , of the Atlanta Hawks. According to Wikipedia, that’s his actual name, not a shortened or hypercoristic form.