Nixzmary Brown

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 1/18/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I've heard "Nix-Mary" and "Nix-Marie" and "Nix-MAH-ree."
> ...
> Every single Google and Google Groups hit seems to be for the same person.
> An original name?

Evidently. The NY Daily News says it's a combination of her mother's
name, Nixzaliz, and her grandmother's name, Maria.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382708p-324928c.html

Nixzaliz is a Puerto Rican name-- pretty rare, from the looks of a
Google search on <nixzaliz -nixzmary>.


--Ben Zimmer

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