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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!