Isn’t Peggy a common nickname for Margaret? The real mystery is whether Al is an Albert or an Alan.
Yes. Peggy is pretty much always short for Margaret.
I don’t know if this is in the spirit of this thread or not, but yesterday I learned what a small world indeed we live in.
SissieHomie (J) is my half sister: same dad, different moms. Yesterday her husband and son and I were leaving breakfast and we ran into B, the stepson of my BFF, whom I’ve known since he was like 9 (he’s like 25 now). B was there with his girlfriend, M, and her parents. Her mom is S.
S and J are first cousins, which means that S and M (heh) are first cousins once removed! Which means that when B marries M, he’ll be a member of my family by marriage (albeit obliquely).
According to my searches, Margaret was shortened to Meg, which was lengthened to Meggy, which then became Peggy.
Alternative Name: In one episode, a driver’s license indicated his name was “Albert”.
Some claim “Alphonse”, but “Alphonse” is cultural Italian, and “Bundy” isn’t an Italian name in my opinion.
…which is sometimes shortened to Peg.
Nah, Alphonse rather is French, the common Italian form of the name is Alfonso.
Perhaps great-grandpa Bundy was “Alfonso Bondi” back in the old country?
You can blame Al (Alphonse) Capone for my mistake, though “Bundy” doesn’t sound French, either. LOL
That’s interesting, I didn’t know that this Al stands for Alphonse and not Alfonso. Maybe his parents wanted get fancy with a French name for their son.
Maybe not, but the French Wikipage tells you what his real name is, and it is more complicated than you assume. If you enter
Alphonse Hercules “Al” Bundy
into the French Wikipedia you get redirected to Al Bundy. Would be funny if they had made his name up just for the French version of the show.
The English Wikipedia does not redirect to Al Bundy from Alphonse Hercules “Al” Bundy.
The Wikipedia entry for the character says that his first name is Alphonse.
Wait, it only gets more mysterious: the French wiki says:
which means
So where the heck does Alex come from?
Now we have a new question: which name is “Al” most frequently used as the diminutive for?
Well spotted. So to the Spanish Wkipedia I go:
Alphonse again. Someone messed up in the French Wikipedia and you were the first to notice. Sounds improbable, but it is the easiest explanation.
Dr. Johnny Fever’s real name is John Caravella.
By far the most common possibility in the US is Alexander.
Other reasonably common possibilities are Alvin, Albert and Alan/Allan/Allen.
It’s possible, but it would depend not only on how common the name Alexander is but also on whether it’s more likely or less likely to abbreviated to Al than some other contenders. For example, although Albert is not as common a name, istm that someone named Albert is far more likely to be addressed by the diminutive Al.
There’s no way to know but Alexander is very often Alex and the others are pretty much only going to be Al so you could be on to something. I’ve known Als of all of those flavors and I am one myself. I don’t go by Al but I did in the past. When I did, the most common guess was Albert.
Presumably “Aloysius” is pretty far down on the guess list.