Originally Posted by
LondonElite
A few years ago a very petite girl on a transaction team introduced herself to me as 'Fawn'. 'Fawn' I said, 'that's a pretty name.' 'Oh you know it?' she said, visibly excited, 'like the baby deer.' Like the baby deer indeed.
Kitty and even Birdie is sometimes a woman's nickname (or Chick for a guy), but puppy, piglet, calf, lamb, cub, etc. would all be bad.
Fawn doesn't sound too bad to me, although both Fawn and Dawn do have slight stripper/poledancer connotations IMO.