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Re: Can you imagine these names on a grown woman?
I really like Nixie as a nickname, but not a full name. Pixie is even more nicknamey. I think those -ixie names could be used as nicknames that are more of a stretch than normal because they're also nouns, and some noun nicknames have nothing to do with the full name but are just based on the person's personality. Full names for Pixie -- Penelope, Piper, Peony, Philippa (via Pippa), Persephone, Pacifica (especially because of "pax"), Paciana, Priska, Petunia, Pascale, Pasqualina, Patricia, Polyxena. "X" is basically "ks", so Pixie as a nickname is less of a stretch if you find a full name with a "k' and/or "s" sound. Full names for Nixie -- Nessa, Nicola, Nimue*, Niniane*, Naia*, Nereida*, Neska, Narcissa, Nausicaa, Nerissa*, Niketa, Nikolina, Anika, Andronika, Anissa, any name that could be called Nick/Nik/Niki/etc.
*any water-related names that start with N would also be good for Nixie, especially if they're based on similar things like naiads and nereids. Phoenix could work for either (it starts with P and contains ix, but it also just contains nix.) I also really like Onyx "Nyxie". I can't decide if Onyx is a GP or if it would work for a real kid. It's more usable than Pixie as a full name anyway! If I had to use one of those to use as a full name by itself, I'd choose Nixie.
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While I love Penelope - I love your suggestion of Polyxena: the /x/ adds so much variable: whether it would sound like /cks/ or like /zh/ as a coarser /sh/ - as in /azure/ (the cyrillic character that appears as a letter k with a backward letter K up against it.
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