- Paraskevi/Paraskeva. You can use Evi, Eva, Petka, or Friday if you're adventurous and enjoy multilingual puns (or perhaps just translating the story). Pyatnitsa if very adventurous.
- Speaking of Friday, there's Hildegard. Hildy is a very usable shortening of it.
- Winifred is uncommon, but she was a marvelous saint and "Winnie" works well.
- Barsanuphius and Barry/Barney/Bart has already been discussed.
- Photini. I can't think of a way to make this less "exotic" other than making it more common.
- Benedict is somewhat uncommon, but Ben works as a short version that obscures the relative oddness of the name - obscuring it is probably less necessary these days, as certain high profile actors have the name.
- Theodosius, Theoderic, Theodoret, Theodotos etc can, like "Theodore", be shortened to Ted.
- Theophilos, Theophanes, and Theognostos can be turned into Theo.
- Amphilochios, Theophilos, and other -phil- names can be, of course, "Phil".
- Maximos is a little odd, according to some, but "Max" is not unprecedented. Makarios could also be similarly shortened.
- Hyacinth could be Jack.
- Turbo. No modification.
- Gerasimos, Germanos, and other modifications could be referred to as "Jerry".
- Nikon, Nikephoros, Nikodemos, Nikander, Nikanor, Nikitas (the Goth), or even Nektarios could all be "Nick". Nektarios could also be "Terry".
- Wilfred or Wilibrord could pass as "Will".
- Remigius is already commonly abbreviated as Rémy, and I think that sounds fine, albeit French.
The more public musings of Mr. G. Z. T, "A man of mickle name, Renowned much in armes and derring doe."
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Other names that are great.
Some names are great, but sound odd to actually have in English, but turn out well anyway because there are great nicknames that work. This list is neglecting common Greek or Russian ways of creating nicknames from these names.
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Yes, we're having a litter of 16.
Akaky?
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Akakios (and variants) are also pretty cool, but not quite sure about a good way to make it sound normal. Sounds too foreign - and by that I mean Canadian.
Well, you know I've got nothing against giving a child a foreign-sounding Hebraic name.
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