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If this is true, then Quincy is only marginally better. I really don't understand the practice of naming a child one name and giving them a nn that is completely unrelated. My youngest, Anna, had a science teacher last year who is as old as my oldest dd (mid 20s). Her birth name is Berkley yet the parents had always planned to call her Teddy after a cartoon they'd seen while the mom was pregnant with her. I could understand modifying the fn to accommodate Teddy (Theodora, Dorothea) yet it has no relationship to her real name at all. That's kind of odd and confusing, imo.