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My Beatrice daughter was sometimes known as Triskie in her extreme youth, but never Trixie. She found it frivolous. When I was a child and my Beatrice mother was known as Bea (mostly, but sometimes, reluctantly, Beattie), the people across the road got a very nice wire-haired terrier puppy that they named Trixie, so it's always been mostly canine to me - I think my mother was a little startled at her semi-namesake, but she never said!

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I think the meaning is too blatant. I'd be really sorry for a plump, boring couch-potato Trixie - also a gloomy or aggressive Joy, and I've known both. Too much to live up to, too much of a risk.