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Title: Minnie as a female name
Post by: scanny on Saturday 13 May 06 14:50 BST (UK)
Anyone any ideas as to what this may be short for?

I have an Amy, Jessie, Mary, Kate , Ethel and Eva to choose from!!  Unless of course Minnie is another!
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: Arranroots on Saturday 13 May 06 14:51 BST (UK)
I can confirm that Minnie was used as a name in its own right.

Surprised me, too!

kind regards, Arranroots  ;)

Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Saturday 13 May 06 14:55 BST (UK)
No Wilhelmina in the family, then  ;D

My grandmother was called Minnie, but her real name was Minna,
but she was austrian, so it's probably different rules there !

Bob
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: polidor on Sunday 14 May 06 13:17 BST (UK)
It could also be Minerva, or Minnie may have been a 2nd Christian name which she preferred to her 1st name ?  Poli
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: bodger on Sunday 14 May 06 15:32 BST (UK)
There was a Minnie Bacon, Belper  1872-1889, in my tree, so i suppose it must have been a recognized name.
Bodger
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: familysearcher on Sunday 14 May 06 16:58 BST (UK)
i have a minnie too.

if you look at Ancestry or Free BMD birth registrations you will find 170,001 Minnies between 1837 and 1983 (or as far as Free BMD goes up to at least)


Sue
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: Hopton on Sunday 14 May 06 20:09 BST (UK)
My mother in laws name is Minnie, its not short for anything else. Her full name is Minnie Beatrice, she hates Minnie and calls herself Bea.

                   Janet
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: jericho on Sunday 14 May 06 20:14 BST (UK)

My great aunt was called Minnie and her real name was infact Mary, while the other one's real name was Margaret.

Both aunts where Irish if that helps at all.





jericho
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: AnneMc on Sunday 14 May 06 21:33 BST (UK)
Hello:

Just to confirm that Minnie is  a proper first name. That is my mum's name.  In fact I have just returned home from taking her out for a mother's day brunch.....

Cheers
Anne
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: Missprim on Sunday 14 May 06 22:22 BST (UK)
According to my Dictionary of First Names Minnie is the pet form of Wilhelmina and at its peak in the second half of the 19th century. 

However Minnie was also used as a name in its own right - I had an aunt named Minnie born 1901 - and her name wasn't a pet-form of anything else.
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: apanderson on Sunday 14 May 06 22:34 BST (UK)
I don't know whether it's a 'Scottish' thing, but I've known of quite a few 'Minnies' who were all christened Marion.

Anne
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: Little Nell on Sunday 14 May 06 22:40 BST (UK)
The book I have says that Minnie was also a Scottish pet form of Mary.

Can't say I'd heard or found that before  :-\

Nell
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: Shash on Saturday 20 May 06 17:20 BST (UK)
in our family tree, our Minnie was in fact Jemima.

shash
Title: Re: Minnie as a female name
Post by: kena on Saturday 20 May 06 18:07 BST (UK)
Hi, my greatgrandmother was known as Minnie but her real name was Mary as well so don't know if that means anything. One of my other greatgrandmothers was called Granny, (even by her husband!) but that's another story.

Anna