I'd assume it wasn't a nn, just a masculine name made into a feminine one like
Billie,
Bobbie, etc.
My ln is
Scott, and my father is often called
Scotty (his fn is
Franklin) so I don't see it as very feminine at all. :P
~
Heather~
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" -
Ernest Gaines