Nappy use to be a name

Fake News

There are a hundred and twenty nine entries in the 1911 census with the female name Nappy. Anyone know why it died out?

The_Valeyard

Sh*t name

biko

I don't know no, are you going to tell us?

endacl

^^

Thread, and possibly internet, finished!

Duckworth_Luas

Short form or Penelope. As that name is no longer popular the short version has died out.

whatdoicare

Nappy is a short name for Penelope. There - I done all the googling for you.



Damn yoooou Duckworth!!!!!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It was a 'pet name' for Annabelle. Like Meg for Margaret.

It was common in the northern counties. I haven't heard it used in a long time.

Stheno

I've an aunt called Babby

McMurphy

Stheno wrote: »

I've an aunt called Babby

Does she live down by The River Saile by any chance?

If so, how's her head?

Donald Trump

Never mind that

There were over 4000 Fannys

I'd have been in me element grabbing all of those!

riffmongous

Anyone know anything about the name Napper? As in Napper Tandy?

biko

Stheno wrote: »

I've an aunt called Babby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-lia-FEIY

colm_mcm

Fake News wrote: »

There are a hundred and twenty nine entries in the 1911 census with the female name Nappy. Anyone know why it died out?

Just time for a change I’d say.

Miss Demeanour

I find the decision of any parent to call their baby Nappy rash tbh.

Zaph

Donald Trump wrote: »

Never mind that

There were over 4000 Fannys

I'd have been in me element grabbing all of those!

I had a boss a couple of years ago whose wife's name was Fanny. They weren't Irish though, so it may be more common where they're from.

colm_mcm

Wall to wall Fanny in some countries.

Donald Trump

How about this wan

Eliza Fanny Head

Feckin' Protestants

Donald Trump

Zaph wrote: »

Donald Trump wrote: »

Never mind that

There were over 4000 Fannys

I'd have been in me element grabbing all of those!

I had a boss a couple of years ago whose wife's name was Fanny.  They weren't Irish though, so it may be more common where they're from.

Deserves a bit of the bould Richie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyCdxXlFhc

AllForIt

Zaph wrote: »

I had a boss a couple of years ago whose wife's name was Fanny. They weren't Irish though, so it may be more common where they're from.

This is what a Fanny looks like:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Cradock

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

riffmongous wrote: »

Anyone know anything about the name Napper? As in Napper Tandy?

It began being used as a Christian name after the 17th century Blessed George Napper, a martyr

donegaLroad

Ernest Uptight Storekeeper wrote: »

It was a 'pet name' for Annabelle. Like Meg for Margaret.

It was common in the northern counties. I haven't heard it used in a long time.

I have heard it a few times here

donegaLroad

riffmongous wrote: »

Anyone know anything about the name Napper? As in Napper Tandy?

Napper Tandy was held in Lifford prison for a while, the name has its origins in English and French:

occupational name for a naperer, the servant in charge of the linen in use in a great house, Middle English, Old French nap(p)ier. Compare Scottish Napier

riffmongous

Ernest Uptight Storekeeper wrote: »

It began being used as a Christian name after the 17th century Blessed George Napper, a martyr

Interesting though that Napper Tandy was from a Protestant family, I wonder why they named him after a Catholic martyr.

donegaLroad wrote: »

Napper Tandy was held in Lifford prison for a while, the name has its origins in English and French:

Is that not the much more common second name though?

I don't seem to find many other examples of people with Napper as a first name

donegaLroad

riffmongous wrote: »

Interesting though that Napper Tandy was from a Protestant family, I wonder why they named him after a Catholic martyr.



Is that not the much more common second name though?

I don't seem to find many other examples of people with Napper as a first name

it's a short form of Penelope, or also an anglicised version of Nuala/Fionnuala
according to "Irish Names for Children" Patrick Woulfe ..1923

from Google

It is used more of a nickname here, but in West and North Donegal, and it goes back a long way

donegal_man

riffmongous wrote: »

Anyone know anything about the name Napper? As in Napper Tandy?

His mother, Maria Della Jenkins was connected to the Naper family of Lough Crew, County Meath. I think, his baptismal record in St. Audoen’s actually reads ‘James Naper Tandy’ although I'm prepared to be corrected on that.

Victor

Also Napoleon and Nuala / Fionnuala.

http://www.libraryireland.com/names/women/fionnghuala-finola.php

Aglomerado

Unfortunate name and surname!

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Jonesborough/Edenappa/303802/