These are not nicknames. A nick name is a jokey thing - Bojo for Boris, for example. This is a list of variant spellings and diminutives!
I have Amabel in 1200-and something. She appears a few times in land transactions etc as Annabel and just as many times as Amabel. As far as I am concerned, her given name is Amabel or Annabel, no nickname or alternative involved.
My mum was Mary. No middle name. Dad called her Polly. (Mary - Molly - Polly). Great Aunt was Mary Emma, also Polly. Her NICKNAME in the family was Auntie Thinny, because she was tall and thin.
Lancashire makes Mary into Mally (dialect variation of Molly). It's not a nickname.
There! Glad I got that off my chest.
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