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What does Biddy mean?
Biddy 
as a girls' name. Pet form of Bride or Bridget (Gaelic) "exalted one". Seldom used outside Ireland nowadays, as the phrase "an old biddy" has come to denote a tiresome old woman.
ENDS WITH -dy
Variations
SEE ALSO Bedelia
RELATED FORMS VIA BRIDE, BRIDGET Birte, Bitta, Breda, Brid, Bride, Bridee, Bridey, Bridi, Bridie, Bridy
CREATIVE FORMS(female) Bedy, ..
(male) Bidde, ..
MIDDLE NAME PAIRINGS
Biddy Nathaly (B.N.), ..
How popular is Biddy?
Biddy is an uncommonly occurring given name for women but a very prominent last name for both adults and children (#22222 out of 150436, Top 15%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
Which version is better?
Bridget (#718 VIA LATEST LIST) and Biddie are the popular varying forms of Biddy (OUTSIDE TOP 2000) appearing in the Top 2000. Other variants, like Bitta, are seldom used. These forms of Biddy reached the apex of their popularity during the years 1970-1979 (AVERAGE #1076) and have become significantly less widespread since (#1359, DOWN 80.8%), with the version Bridget going out of style. (2018 U.S. SSA RECORDS)
Similar Names
Biddy is alike in pronunciation to Beda. Other recommended sound-alike names are Addy, Biffy, Billy▼, Bindy, Binny, Bird, Birdey, Birdy, Bizzy, Brady, Bridey, Bridy, Caddy, Cindy▼, Eddy, Hildy, Lindy▼, Maddy, Mindy▼, Sindy, Tildy and Windy▼. These names tend to be more commonly used than Biddy.
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