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I love the name Nellie! It's super cute

My only association is Marlow's ship in "The Heart of Darkness".

I love it, but only as a nickname. My favorite full name for it is Prunella.

I like it a lot, but it also sounds dated in a way that's kitschy, to me.
My great-grandmother was named Jessie Mae and some of her siblings were Nellie, Juanita, and Eldred; those all seem dated-kitschy to me.

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But then, I also think of the rapper Nelly. And Nellie McKay and Nelly Furtado.

This message was edited 3/4/2020, 4:33 PM

I think it is ok

On both my father's and my mother's family trees there is a Nellie; one with no mn, the other with a family ln as her mn. The 'no-mn Nellie' could have been named after her paternal grandmother, Ellen; the other one probably got it because it was fashionable then.

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I don't think names like Helen and Eleanor need nns - I like the full forms very much - but I do prefer Nellie to Ellie!

It's cute in an old fashioned way. My first thought was of a horse, but since it is just a nickname it isn't like they would be stuck with it.