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I was discussing this today with some friends; there are some names that have a huge number of variants to them (for example Elizabeth -> Lizzie/Lizzy, Liz, Lily, Beth, Eliza, Betty, Elise, Lisa, Abbie, Ellie, Ella, Libby etc.) and we were trying to think of as many short forms for different names as we could. I reckon Elizabeth must have the most short forms, but you get names like Mary and Anne which quite often get used in double barreled names, and have foreign equivalents that are quite common over here (Maria, Anna etc) and male names like Alexander which are universal.

My name's fairly boring, it's Greg, which is a short form of Gregory (though my name is just Greg) and there's not much you can do with it.


How about your name?