Nappy use to be a name

Fake News · 22-01-2018 09:46PM #1

There are a hundred and twenty nine entries in the 1911 census with the female name Nappy. Anyone know why it died out? 6034073

The_Valeyard · 22-01-2018 09:52PM

Sh*t name

biko · 22-01-2018 09:54PM

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

endacl · 22-01-2018 09:54PM

^^

Thread, and possibly internet, finished!

Duckworth_Luas · 22-01-2018 10:00PM

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

whatdoicare · 22-01-2018 10:01PM

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

Damn yoooou Duckworth!!!!!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 22-01-2018 10:03PM

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 · 22-01-2018 10:06PM

I've an aunt called Babby

McMurphy · 22-01-2018 10:09PM

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 · 22-01-2018 10:14PM

Never mind that

There were over 4000 Fannys

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

22-01-2018 10:25PM

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

biko · 22-01-2018 10:26PM

Stheno wrote: »

I've an aunt called Babby

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

colm_mcm · 22-01-2018 10:28PM

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 · 22-01-2018 10:28PM

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

Zaph · 22-01-2018 10:28PM

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 · 22-01-2018 10:31PM

Wall to wall Fanny in some countries.

Donald Trump · 22-01-2018 10:34PM

How about this wan

Eliza Fanny Head

Feckin' Protestants

Donald Trump · 22-01-2018 10:35PM

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 · 22-01-2018 10:35PM

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 · 22-01-2018 10:37PM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:54AM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:56AM

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

23-01-2018 01:44AM

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 · 23-01-2018 02:00AM

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 · 23-01-2018 02:26AM

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 · 23-01-2018 04:01AM

Also Napoleon and Nuala / Fionnuala.

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

Aglomerado · 23-01-2018 03:14PM

Unfortunate name and surname!

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

Nappy use to be a name

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