Nickname Names
Short forms registered as the full legal name. A long-standing practice presented as a modern one: parish registers have been recording pet forms as given names for several hundred years.
3 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in the United States
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Mimi Mimi is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Maria and Miriam, used especially in French and Italian.Girl French, Italian, Hebrew 14 in 2025
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