By Linda Rosenkrantz

　　Like our cousins across the pond, we’ve fallen in love with vintage nicknames for our girls—names like Maisie and Mabel and Sadie and Josie and Hattie are already on the rise. But do those parents who want a little Hattie necessarily consider putting Harriet or Henrietta on the birth certificate?

　　Maybe, maybe not.

　　In some cases, the adorable short form is actually succeeding in waking up its sleeping mother name. Like Josephine, for instance, and Beatrice. But here are some others whose full versions have not seen as much—if any– action, as adorable as their period nicknames may be.

　　Which of these cute, often tomboyish, girl nicknames do you think are capable of reviving their more staid Great-Grandma names?

　　AGGIE—Agatha, Agnes

　　ARTIE—Artemisia

　　BEA—Beatha, Bethia

　　BERRY—Bertha

　　BENNIE—Benedicta

　　BERNIE—Bernice, Bernadette

　　BERTIE—Alberta, Bertha, Roberta

　　BILLIE—Wilhelmina, Wilma

　　BREN—Brenda

　　CLEMMIE—Clemence

　　DESI—Desdemona

　　DOLLY—Dorothy

　　DORY—Eudora

　　DOT—Dorothy

　　DRU—Drusilla

　　EDDY—Edwina

　　EFFIE—Euphemia

　　ELLIE—Elmira, Elvira

　　ELVIE—Elvira

　　ERNIE—Ernestine

　　ESSIE—Esther, Estelle

　　ETTIE—Ethel

　　EULIE—Eulalia

　　EVVIE—Evadne

　　FLORRIE—Flora

　　FLOSSIE—Florence

　　FRANKIE—Francine

　　FREDDIE—Alfreda, Frederica

　　FRITZIE—Frederica

　　GERTIE—Gertrude

　　GINGER—Virginia

　　GLADDY—Gladys

　　HATTIE—Harriet, Henrietta

　　HETTIE—Mehetabel

　　IZZY—Ismay

　　JAKE—Jacobina

　　JEMMY—Jemima

　　JOBIE—Jobina

　　KETTY—Keturah

　　KIZZIE—Keziah

　　LALLY—Eulalia

　　LETTY—Leticia, Lettice

　　LIDDY—Lydia

　　LOTTIE—Carlotta

　　LOVVIE—Loveday

　　LULA—Beulah

　　LULU—Louise, Lucille, Lucilla, Lucasta, Lucinda

　　MINNIE—Minerva, Wilhelmina

　　MINTA, MINTY—Araminta

　　NELLIE—Helen, Eleanor

　　NETTIE—Antoinette, Janet

　　OLLY—Olympia

　　PRU—Prudence

　　REGGIE—Regina

　　ROMY—Romola

　　TAVY—Octavia

　　THEA—Althea, Theodosia

　　TILDA—Matilda, Clotilda

　　TILLIE—Matilda

　　TOMMY—Thomasina

　　VINNIE—Lavinia

　　VONNIE—Yvonne

　　WINNIE—Edwina, Winifred

　　ZETTA—Rosetta

　　ZAZA– Tirzah