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Hi !!!
WDYTO Tiggy as full name?
I came across it when I read "The Seven Sisters" saga by Lucinda Riley.
There Tiggy was the short of Taygete (one of the Pleiades) but I read that it could be diminutive of Antigone, Tegan, Charlotte or even Alexandra.
I think that it's cute as full name! It's youthful but sweet.
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WDYTO Tiggy as full name?
I came across it when I read "The Seven Sisters" saga by Lucinda Riley.
There Tiggy was the short of Taygete (one of the Pleiades) but I read that it could be diminutive of Antigone, Tegan, Charlotte or even Alexandra.
I think that it's cute as full name! It's youthful but sweet.
Personal Name Lists https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/125456
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I don't think it works as a full name. While it'd make a good nickname for Antigone, it sounds childish, and Tiggy is too close to Twiggy in my opinion.
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Tiggy is the name of a children's game where one person is "it" and runs around trying to touch another child to make them "it". Add to that Tigger, the A A Milne character. Then there's Twiggy the 60s teen model.
I get the mental picture of skinny children bouncing around trying to thump each other.
I get the mental picture of skinny children bouncing around trying to thump each other.
This message was edited 6/3/2019, 6:31 PM
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It sounds like baby talk. It sounds like what you would call a cat named Tigger.
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Uh definitely no.
It might seem 'youthful and sweet' but not a serious enough name as an adult. If it was my name i'd be embarrassed.
Cute nickname, yes
It might seem 'youthful and sweet' but not a serious enough name as an adult. If it was my name i'd be embarrassed.
Cute nickname, yes
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I don't see how it ties in with Charlotte or Alexandra at all. It just sounds like baby talk to me, like Boo-Boo or Shugs.
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I only like it as a nickname for Antigone or maybe Terpsichore.
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Tig, Tigs, or Tiggy would make cute nicknames for a baby Antigone, but they would sound silly on an adult.
Don't Italians use any cute nicknames for babies and little children that they don't use once the person grows up? Mimma and Tesoro sound like they could be regular names to non-Italian ears, but aren't they generally strictly nicknames?
Don't Italians use any cute nicknames for babies and little children that they don't use once the person grows up? Mimma and Tesoro sound like they could be regular names to non-Italian ears, but aren't they generally strictly nicknames?
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Hi !!!
Italians don't use nicknames at all except for those well-known like Mina, Nino, Dina, Pino, Beppe, Gina, Rosy (f) or Giusy (f).
The fact was simply that I supposed that Tiggy were like all the others -y nicknames that recently are becoming established names...just it.
Thanks for your explaination.
Italians don't use nicknames at all except for those well-known like Mina, Nino, Dina, Pino, Beppe, Gina, Rosy (f) or Giusy (f).
The fact was simply that I supposed that Tiggy were like all the others -y nicknames that recently are becoming established names...just it.
Thanks for your explaination.
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It’s a little too childish - cute on a small girl, maybe, but pretty ridiculous on an adult. I know it isn’t so different to a nickname like Libby: it just somehow sounds and feels younger and sillier.
I knew a set of siblings called Harry, Lulu, and Tiggy - I think everyone at our school felt they had pretty ridiculous names (Harry’s fine on its own, but lumped in with Lulu and Tiggy takes on its own childish sound too)
I knew a set of siblings called Harry, Lulu, and Tiggy - I think everyone at our school felt they had pretty ridiculous names (Harry’s fine on its own, but lumped in with Lulu and Tiggy takes on its own childish sound too)
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Okay, now we’re just being ridiculous. Although I admit that as a nn for Antigone it made me smile.
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Tilly's getting enough use by Americans that I wouldn't be surprised if it charted in the next ~5 years.
https://www.behindthename.com/top/beyond.php?name=Tilly&gender=&type=sample
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I can stomach Tiggy as a diminutive of Antigone. I don't know what's up with the other options.
But as a full name? Just absurd.
But as a full name? Just absurd.
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Well, I don't like any of those as full given names, either. But Tiggy is especially nicknamey, cutesy, and juvenile. It doesn't stand alone at all, in my opinion. It feels very silly.
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