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A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a male or female nickname. examples
A female given name from English. quotations examples
She and Mma Ramotswe were fortunate, with their reasonably straightforward names of Grace and Precious respectively; she had contemporaries who were not so fortunate and had been saddled by their parents with names that were frankly ridiculous.
2009, Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Abacus, published 2010, page 6