These are well stablished nicknames. Someones are exclusively used in
America (Chivita, e.g.), but others are very usual in Spain, too (Quina, e.g.).
Licha is a nickname for
AliciaQuina is a nickname for Joaquina (and Quino is the masculine, from Joaquín). Aquilina could be, but it isn't the main use. [Aquiles is a masculine name, without -N- and without -A- and its nickname is Quiles.]
Chivita is a nickname for
Silvia [Silvia>Silvita>Chilvita>Chivita). Chivita is a word, too, meaning "little goat".
Chepa is a nickname for
Josefa (through a variant Josepa: Josepa>Jochepa>Chepa). The nickname for
José María is Chema (
Jose María>Josema>Jochema>Chema); Chepo could be a nickname for
José (through its old variant Josefo/Josepo). Chepa is a colloquial word, too, meaning "hump, hunch".
Pochencho is a compound nickname for
José
Inocencio. The nickname of
Inocencio is Chencho (Inocencio>Inochencho>Chencho) and an old form (nowadays only used to make nicknames) of
José is Josefo/Josepo:
José
Inocencio> Josepo Chencho > Po Chencho > Pochencho. (The combo
Alfonso Inocencio, or
Ambrosio Inocencio, is very odd;
José
Inocencio is a, more or less, usual combo.)
Mapy is an Englishized spelling of Mapi, a usual nickname for María Pilar/María del Pilar/Mari
Pili or, in Canary Islands, for María Pino/María del
Pino.
About nicknames in Spanish:
http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/anteriores/n21/21_mespinosa.htmlLumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
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