Can you help come up with common nicknames unrelated to the original name. For instance Richard/d**k?

Question

Can you help come up with common nicknames unrelated to the original name. For instance Richard/d**k?

Answer 1

Henry / Hank

Margaret / Meg or Peggy

John / Jack

Elizabeth / Betty

You mean like those?

Answer 2

Some times JR's are called "Skip" or "Chip", As in "skipped a generation", or "chip off the old block".  So the nickname  relates not to the name, but the suffix.

Some the III's (the thirds) are called "Trey" ( from "Tre" as in the number 3)

Answer 3

Walter/ Cy

Answer 4

Jerry/Jim

Answer 5

Many men named Robert go by Bob. Like both my grandfather and my father. (I go by Rob.) Some men named William are called Bill. I also heard once that people named Charlie will go by Chas.

Answer 6

I know a guy named Dimitri who goes by Jim.