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Re: Antonia doesn't have to be Toni (carry it on)

by Aine (poetic_freedom)

4/21/2018, 3:37 PM

I find regional differences in the nicknames for Rebecca to be interesting. Rebecca was quite popular in my age group (at least in the schools I attended) when I was growing up. All of them were Bec/Beck or Bex/Becs/Becks...they maybe got Becky occasionally from their mother or something as a cutesy informal nickname but I never knew a Rebecca that went by Becca or Becky until the first time I lived in the US in 2008. I prefer Becca to Bec personally but I'd never come across it among all the Rebeccas that I have known in Australia.

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- Rose-Berry

4/22/2018, 1:36 PM

I was thinking about this the other day for some reason. When I was a child Becky was the obvious nickname for Rebecca, but by the time I got into my teens/early 20s, I noticed lots of Rebeccas were being called Bex / Becks. This would be late '90s. It's around the same time that Catherines started being called Cat.

- Dracotorix

4/21/2018, 6:13 PM

Oh, that's true. I live in the US and there are a lot of Rebeccas called Bec, Beck, Bex, Becks, etc. But Becca and Becky are definitely more common.

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