[Peter Libra]

My favourite biblical name for a girl and I certainly never dared mention it as a choice of a daughters first name. It was was Hepzibah. Now the novel "Silas Marner" had as a character little Hepzibah. Throughout the novel, she was called using the diminutive of "Eppie". People seem to have a fine way of reducing a name that may not be the best for a child. Eustacia is reduced to Stacy and Thomasin as Tamsie. These were two heroines in a novel by Thomas Hardy.

I have a diminutive for the sweet little girl called Amazing, it is Maisie.

Please excuse the ramble. My wife positively refused my daughters names as Eustacia (fem of Eustace) and Thomasin (fem of Thomas). They are their middle names.

[Tired of Taxes]

And wonderful middle names they are. :-)

My children were given what most people would consider common names. Before choosing names, we tried them each after titles like “General” and “President” to see how they’d sound. But middle names can be much more fun.